Daughters of Alchemy

Nonfiction, History, Italy, Renaissance, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences
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Author: Meredith K. Ray ISBN: 9780674425897
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: April 6, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Meredith K. Ray
ISBN: 9780674425897
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: April 6, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.

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Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.

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