Hypatia's HeritageA history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Women In Prehistory | 12 |
Women and Science in the Ancient World | 20 |
From the Alexandrians to the Arabs | 35 |
Women and Experimental | 50 |
The Sibyl of the Rhine | 62 |
The Rise of the Scientific Lady | 77 |
Chemists and | 95 |
The New Naturalists | 108 |
The Women Astronomers | 119 |
The Philosophers of the Scientific Revolution | 135 |
The NineteenthCentury Mathematicians | 148 |
The Popularisation and Professionalisation of Science | 174 |
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