Daughters of Alchemy

Daughters of Alchemy
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9780674504233
ISBN-13 : 0674504232
Rating : 4/5 (232 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Daughters of Alchemy by : Meredith K. Ray

Download or read book Daughters of Alchemy written by Meredith K. Ray and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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