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Daughters of Alchemy : Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy / Meredith K. Ray.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 17Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780674504233
  • 9780674425873
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509.2/5220945 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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