Daughters of Alchemy

Daughters of Alchemy
Author: Meredith K. Ray
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2015-04-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674504232

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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.


Daughters of Alchemy
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Meredith K. Ray
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-06 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 an
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Categories: Fiction
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What Philippa Gregory has done for Tudor England, Jeanne Kalogridis does for Renaissance Italy. Her latest irresistible historical novel is about a countess who
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