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Daughters of Alchemy : Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy /
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 ar...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (280 p.) : 10 halftones |
| ISBN: | 9780674425873 9783110439687 9783110438635 9783110665901 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |