Lady Ranelagh

Author : Michelle DiMeo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673174X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Ranelagh written by Michelle DiMeo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patroness of the European correspondence network now known as the Hartlib circle—but neither portrait captures the depth of her intellect or the range of her knowledge and influence. Philosophers, mathematicians, politicians, and religious authorities sought her opinion on everything from decimalizing the currency to producing Hebrew grammars. She practiced medicine alongside distinguished male physicians, treating some of the most elite patients in London. Her medical recipes, political commentaries, and testimony concerning the philosophers’ stone gained international circulation. She was an important influence on Boyle and a formidable thinker in her own right. Drawing from a wealth of new archival sources, Michelle DiMeo fills out Lady Ranelagh’s legacy in the context of a historically sensitive and nuanced interpretation of gender, science, and religion. The book re-creates the intellectual life of one of the most respected and influential women in seventeenth-century Europe, revealing how she managed to gain the admiration of diverse contemporaries, effect social change, and shape contemporary science.

Author : Julie A. Eckerle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803299974
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland written by Julie A. Eckerle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English—and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women’s narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde—women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland—also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers’ construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.

Author : Sarah Hutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139456059
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anne Conway written by Sarah Hutton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2004 book was the first intellectual biography of one of the very first English women philosophers. At a time when very few women received more than basic education, Lady Anne Conway wrote an original treatise of philosophy, her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, which challenged the major philosophers of her day - Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. Sarah Hutton's study places Anne Conway in her historical and philosophical context, by reconstructing her social and intellectual milieu. She traces her intellectual development in relation to friends and associates such as Henry More, Sir John Finch, F. M. van Helmont, Robert Boyle and George Keith. And she documents Conway's debt to Cambridge Platonism and her interest in religion - an interest which extended beyond Christian orthodoxy to Quakerism, Judaism and Islam. Her book offers an insight into both the personal life of a very private woman, and the richness of seventeenth-century intellectual culture.

Author : Anna Reser
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 0711248974
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forces of Nature written by Anna Reser and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In this thoroughly researched, authoritative work, you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture – showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Included in the book are the stories of: Hypatia of Alexandria, one of the earliest recorded female mathematicians Maria Cunitz who corrected errors in Kepler’s work Emmy Noether who discovered fundamental laws of physics Vera Rubin one of the most influential astronomers of the twentieth century Jocelyn Bell Burnell who helped discover pulsars

Author : James Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375016972
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memorable Women of the Puritan Times written by James Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Author : Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fair Ladies of Hampton Court written by Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Morse] [Symonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Times, written by Emily Morse] [Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Paston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Her Times written by George Paston and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mandy Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000375811
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women (Re)Writing Milton written by Mandy Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton.

Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226750187
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Truth written by Steven Shapin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-06-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Social History of Truth, a leading scholar addresses these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity.