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Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment

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Title: Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment
Author: Patricia Fara
ISBN: 9781844130825
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Science & Math 1650039

Publisher Description:
Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable. Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the 19th century, yet they found other ways to participate in science. Taking a fresh look at history, Patricia Fara investigates how women contributed to scientific progress. As well as collaborating in home-based research, women corresponded with renowned scholars and simplified important texts. Throughout this work, Fara shows how they played essential roles in work frequently attributed to their husbands or fathers. Patricia Fara lectures on at Cambridge University. She is the author of the highly praised work "Newton: The Making of Genius.""