Daughters of Alchemy Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy |
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| Author:
| Ray, Meredith K. |
| Series title: | I Tatti Study in Italian Renaissance Hist Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-50423-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $99.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.