| Description |
xx, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The riddle of the Sphinx : Francis Bacon and the emblems of science / Sarah Hutton -- Women and technical writing, 1475-1700 : technology, literacy and development of a genre / Elizabeth Tebeaux -- Thoroughly resented? : Older women and the medical role in early modern London / Margaret Pelling -- Women and domestic medicine : lady experimenters, 1570-1620 / Lynette Hunter -- 'How I these studies prize' : the Countess of Pembroke and Elizabethan science / Margaret P. Hannay -- Lucy Hutchinson, atomism and the atheist dog / Reid Barbour -- A memorial of Eleanor Willughby, a seventeenth century midwife / Adrian Wilson -- Sisters of the Royal Society : the circle of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh / Lynette Hunter -- Living in the neighbourhood of science : Mary Evelyn, Margaret Cavendish and the Greshamites / Frances Harris -- Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish and seventeenth-century scientific thought / Sarah Hutton -- Astronomy and the domestic sphere : Margaret Flamsteed and Caroline Herschel as assistant-astronomers / Rob Iliffe and Frances Willmoth. |
| Subject(s) |
Royal Society (Great Britain)
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Women in science -- Great Britain.
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Science, Renaissance.
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Women scientists -- Great Britain.
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| Alternate Author |
Hunter, Lynette.
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Hutton, Sarah, 1948-
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