Women of the Scientific Revolution [1 ed.] 9781508174790, 9781508174783

Women were not allowed to attend academic institutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but many were highly

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Women of the Scientific Revolution [1 ed.]
9781508174790, 9781508174783

An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned t

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Jacob (history, New School for Social Research) proposes that the science of the 17th and 18th centuries was eventually

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In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that prom

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This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse gr

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Fifteen essays in the history of science teach us that we must judge the work of earlier authors in its entirety and rel

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The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have eith

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This ambitious book explores the relationship between the Western "scientific revolutionthat began with Galileo in

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