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Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

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

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Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy 2015, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674504233

Hardcover