TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ray,Meredith K.
AU  - Erculiani,Camilla
AU  - Fonte,Moderata
AU  - Marinella,Lucrezia
AU  - Sarrocchi,Margherita
TI  - Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy 
T2  - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
SN  - 9780674504233
U1  - 509.2/5220945 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women in science
KW  - Women scientists
KW  - HISTORY / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 Caterina Sforza's Experiments with Alchemy --; 2 The Secrets of Isabella Cortese: Practical Alchemy and Women Readers --; 3 Scientific Culture and the Renaissance Querelle des Femmes --; 4 Scientifi c Circles in Italy and Abroad --; Epilogue --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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