Article ID: CBB000952372

“From This Time, I Shall Survey Myself in the Glass with a Sort of Philosophical Pleasure”: Newton and Narcissism in Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies (2008)

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Description On the argument in Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's work on Newton that women are drawn to the science of optics, commenting on female microscope use.


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Authors & Contributors
Wilson, Catherine
Hutton, Sarah
Zuidervaart, Huib J.
Rijks, Marlise
Zuylen, J. van
Wilkins, Emma
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Transactions of the International Congress on the Enlightenment
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Science in Context
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Princeton University Press
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
Concepts
Microscopes
Optics
Women in science
Science and gender
Newtonianism
Popularization
People
Algarotti, Francesco
Newton, Isaac
Hooke, Robert
Carter, Elizabeth
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
Places
Netherlands
Great Britain
Delft (Netherlands)
Italy
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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