Minerva's French sisters : women of science in Enlightenment France
This book presents the stories of six intrepid women of science in eighteenth-century France whose lives and accomplishments-though celebrated in their lifetimes-have been largely written out of the history of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole Reine Lep...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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New Haven London : Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Schlagworte: | Frankreich Wissenschaftlerin Aufklärung Geschichte 1700-1805 |
| Umfang: | xix, 340 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | This book presents the stories of six intrepid women of science in eighteenth-century France whose lives and accomplishments-though celebrated in their lifetimes-have been largely written out of the history of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole Reine Lepaute, field naturalist Jeanne Barret, garden botanist and illustrator Madeleine Francoise Basseporte, anatomist and inventor Marie-Marguerite Biheron, and chemist Genevieve d'Arconville. By adjusting our lens we can find them.00In a society where science was not yet an established profession for men, much less women, these six audacious and inspiring figures made their mark on their respective fields of science and on Enlightenment society, as they defied gender expectations and conventional norms. Their boldness and contributions to science were appreciated by such luminaries as Franklin, the philosophes, and many European monarchs. The book is written in an unorthodox style to match the women's breaking of boundaries |
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| Beschreibung: | xix, 340 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 0300252560 9780300252569 9780300258431 0300258437 |