Article ID: CBB000670532

“As far as a woman's reasoning can go”: Scientific Dialogue and Sexploitation (2005)

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Description Examines two works written for women: a translation of a book by Fontenelle and Elizabeth Carter's Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explained for the Use of Ladies (1739).


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Authors & Contributors
Shank, J. B.
Hutton, Sarah
Maria Rita Fadda
Findlen, Paula
Zinsser, Judith P.
Withers, Charles W. J.
Journals
Journal of Literature and Science
Science in Context
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Peter Lang
Palgrave Macmillan
Oxford University Press
Aracne
Concepts
Women in science
Science and gender
Newtonianism
Popularization
Translations
Physics
People
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de
Algarotti, Francesco
Newton, Isaac
Behn, Aphra
Somerville, Mary Fairfax
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
Places
France
Italy
Great Britain
Leipzig (Germany)
Europe
Institutions
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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