Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy

by Meredith K. Ray

The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674504232
• ISBN13: 9780674504233
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"