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Becoming a Scientist: Gender and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy (2003)

Findlen, Paula (Author)

Science in Context
Volume: 16
Pages: 59--87

Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on “Scientific Personae”
Language: English

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Women in science Natural philosophy Popular culture Science and literature 18th century Italy Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de Algarotti, Francesco Faini, Diamante Medaglia

Description Uses Diamante Medaglia Faini, poet and would-be mathematician, as a case study.

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Article Daston, Lorraine; Sibum, H. Otto (2003) Introduction: Scientific Personae and Their Histories. Science in Context (p. 1). unapi

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