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
Fara, Patricia
Zuylen, J. van
Wilkins, Emma
Wetzels, Walter D.
Concepts
Microscopes
Optics
Women in science
Science and gender
Newtonianism
Popularization
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Netherlands
Italy
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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