Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
(Part of the I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674504232
ISBN13:9780674504233
Release Date:April 2015
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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