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Daughters of Alchemy

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Release : 2015-04-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Daughters of Alchemy by : Meredith K. Ray

Download or read book Daughters of Alchemy written by Meredith K. Ray. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Daughters of Alchemy

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Release : 2015-04-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Daughters of Alchemy by : Meredith K. Ray

Download or read book Daughters of Alchemy written by Meredith K. Ray. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for their intellectual equality to men. Meredith Ray restores the work of these women to our understanding of early modern scientific culture. Her study begins with Caterina Sforza’s alchemical recipes; examines the sixteenth-century vogue for “books of secrets”; and looks at narratives of science in works by Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella. It concludes with Camilla Erculiani’s letters on natural philosophy and, finally, Margherita Sarrocchi’s defense of Galileo’s “Medicean” stars. Combining literary and cultural analysis, Daughters of Alchemy contributes to the emerging scholarship on the variegated nature of scientific practice in the early modern era. Drawing on a range of under-studied material including new analyses of the Sarrocchi–Galileo correspondence and a previously unavailable manuscript of Sforza’s Experimenti, Ray’s book rethinks early modern science, properly reintroducing the integral and essential work of women.

Alchemy's Daughter

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Release : 2015
Genre : Alchemy
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Book Rating : 179/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Alchemy's Daughter by : Mary A. Osborne

Download or read book Alchemy's Daughter written by Mary A. Osborne. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval San Gimignano, seventeen-year-old Santina apprentices to Trotula, the village midwife. Some say she is the victim of the midwife's spell, but Santina is determined to follow in Trotula's footsteps even as calamities strike.--Publisher.

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

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Release : 2017-06-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 526/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by : Theodora Goss

Download or read book The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter written by Theodora Goss. This book was released on 2017-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this “tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their own origins. Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture…a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein. When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.

The Alchemy of Womanhood

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Release : 2016-06-08
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 300/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Alchemy of Womanhood by : Dolores Rice

Download or read book The Alchemy of Womanhood written by Dolores Rice. This book was released on 2016-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the physical changes a girl undergoes when becoming a woman.

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