Minerva's French sisters : women of science in Enlightenment France / Nina Rattner Gelbart.
Pubblicazione:
New Haven : Yale university press, c2021.
Descrizione fisica:
XIX, 240 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Chronology. Actors in a supporting role. Introduction: A sextet of firsts, variations on a theme. 1. Mathematician and philosopher: the celebrated mlle Ferrand (1700-1752) 2. Astronomer and learned calculator: Nicole Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) 3. Botany in the field and in the garden: Jeanne Barret (1740-1807) and Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-1780) 4. Anatomists and inventor: Marie-Marguerite Biheron and her medical museum (1719-1795) 5. Chemist and experimentalist: marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville and her choice of anonymity (1720-1805). Epilogue. Notes. Index
