Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind |
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| Zahm, John Augustine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-262-13113-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1974 |
| Publisher: | MIT Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Excerpt: ...truthfully asserted that had it not been for her penetrating intelligence, her tenacity of purpose and her keenness of vision, which were never at fault, the great victory which crowned their efforts would never have been achieved. 160 Compare their work with that which was accomplished by their illustrious predecessors, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, and his wife, a century earlier. The latter, by their discovery of and experiments with oxygen, were able to explain the until...
More DescriptionExcerpt: ...truthfully asserted that had it not been for her penetrating intelligence, her tenacity of purpose and her keenness of vision, which were never at fault, the great victory which crowned their efforts would never have been achieved. 160 Compare their work with that which was accomplished by their illustrious predecessors, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, and his wife, a century earlier. The latter, by their discovery of and experiments with oxygen, were able to explain the until then mysterious phenomena of combustion and respiration and to co