Author : Meredith K. Ray
Release : 2015-04-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
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.