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Minerva's French Sisters - Women of Science in Enlightenment France (Hardcover)
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Minerva's French Sisters - Women of Science in Enlightenment France (Hardcover)
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A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in
eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out
of history This book presents the stories of six intrepid
Frenchwomen of science in the Enlightenment whose
accomplishments-though celebrated in their lifetimes--have been
generally omitted from subsequent studies of their period:
mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole
Reine Lepaute, field naturalist Jeanne Barret, garden botanist and
illustrator Madeleine Francoise Basseporte, anatomist and inventor
Marie-Marguerite Biheron, and chemist Genevieve d'Arconville. By
adjusting our lens, we can find them. In a society where science
was not yet an established profession for men, much less women,
these six audacious and inspiring figures made their mark on their
respective fields of science and on Enlightenment society, as they
defied gender expectations and conventional norms. Their boldness
and contributions to science were appreciated by such luminaries as
Franklin, the philosophes, and many European monarchs. The book is
written in an unorthodox style to match the women's breaking of
boundaries.
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