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Pandora's Breeches

Patricia Fara
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  • ISBN 9781845952457
  • Weight: 284g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Dec 2017
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific projects.

Taking a fresh look at history, Pandora's Breeches investigates how women contributed to scientific progress. As well as collaborating in home-based research, women corresponded with internationally-renowned scholars, hired tutors, published their own books and translated and simplified important texts, such as Newton's book on gravity. They played essential roles in work frequently attributed solely to their husbands, fathers or friends.
About Patricia Fara
Patricia Fara is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where she lectures on the History and Philosophy of Science. She is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including: Newton: The Making of Genius, An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity and Enlightenment and Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks.

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