Daughters of Alchemy : Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy / Meredith K. Ray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, Meredith K., Author.

Series:

I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in science--Italy--History.

Women in science.

Women scientists--Italy--Biography.

Women scientists.

Science--Italy--History.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 Caterina Sforza’s Experiments with Alchemy

2 The Secrets of Isabella Cortese: Practical Alchemy and Women Readers

3 Scientific Culture and the Renaissance Querelle des Femmes

4 Scientifi c Circles in Italy and Abroad

Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780674425897

0674425898

9780674425873

0674425871

OCLC:

905902839