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Mary Somerville : Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind.
In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her gender identity and by creating rich, readable, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Port Chester :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Author's Preface""; ""Key to Parenthetical References to the Works of Mary Somerville""; ""Perceiving What Others Do Not Perceive""; ""1 Head Among the Stars, Feet Firm Upon the Earth""; ""2 Creating a Room of Her Own in the World of Science""; ""3 Science as Exact Calculation and Elevated Meditation""; ""4 The Earth, the Sea, the Air, and Their Inhabitants""; ""5 Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville""; ""6 Memory and Mary Somerville""; ""Epilogue Science, Voice, and Vision""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""