Book ID: CBB005750553

Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France (2021)

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Gelbart, Nina Rattner (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 360
Language: English

A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out of history This book presents the stories of six intrepid women of science in eighteenth-century France whose lives and accomplishments—though celebrated in their lifetimes—have been largely written out of the history of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole Reine Lepaute, field naturalist Jeanne Barret, garden botanist and illustrator Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, anatomist and inventor Marie-Marguerite Biheron, and chemist Geneviève d’Arconville. By adjusting our lens we can find them. In a society where science was not yet an established profession for men, much less women, these six audacious and inspiring figures made their mark on their respective fields of science and on Enlightenment society, as they defied gender expectations and conventional norms. Their boldness and contributions to science were appreciated by such luminaries as Franklin, the philosophes, and many European monarchs. The book is written in an unorthodox style to match the women’s breaking of boundaries.

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Authors & Contributors
Paolo Amodio
Antonelli, Francesca
Weiss, Kim Morrison
Thiroux d'Arconville, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus
Sowerwinea, Charles
Shank, J. B.
Concepts
Women in science
Science and gender
Chemistry
Collective biographies
Experiments and experimentation
Historiography
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
France
United States
Europe
Toulouse (France)
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Lichfield Botanical Society
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