Download or read book An Account of a New Comet By Miss Caroline Herschel Read at the Royal Society Nov 9 1786 written by Caroline Lucretia Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Mind Has No Sex written by Londa Schiebinger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian François Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that “the mind has no sex.” In this rich and comprehensive history of women’s contributions to the development of early modern science, Londa Schiebinger examines the shifting fortunes of male and female equality in the sphere of the intellect. Schiebinger counters the “great women” mode of history and calls attention to broader developments in scientific culture that have been obscured by time and changing circumstance. She also elucidates a larger issue: how gender structures knowledge and power. It is often assumed that women were automatically excluded from participation in the scientific revolution of early modern Europe, but in fact powerful trends encouraged their involvement. Aristocratic women participated in the learned discourse of the Renaissance court and dominated the informal salons that proliferated in seventeenth-century Paris. In Germany, women of the artisan class pursued research in fields such as astronomy and entomology. These and other women fought to renegotiate gender boundaries within the newly established scientific academies in order to secure their place among the men of science. But for women the promises of the Enlightenment were not to be fulfilled. Scientific and social upheavals not only left women on the sidelines but also brought about what the author calls the “scientific revolution in views of sexual difference.” While many aspects of the scientific revolution are well understood, what has not generally been recognized is that revolution came also from another quarter—the scientific understanding of biological sex and sexual temperament (what we today call gender). Illustrations of female skeletons of the ideal woman—with small skulls and large pelvises—portrayed female nature as a virtue in the private realm of hearth and home, but as a handicap in the world of science. At the same time, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women witnessed the erosion of their own spheres of influence. Midwifery and medical cookery were gradually subsumed into the newly profess ionalized medical sciences. Scientia, the ancient female personification of science, lost ground to a newer image of the male researcher, efficient and solitary—a development that reflected a deeper intellectual shift. By the late eighteenth century, a self-reinforcing system had emerged that rendered invisible the inequalities women suffered. In reexamining the origins of modern science, Schiebinger unearths a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue to shape the course of scientific scholarship and knowledge.

Download or read book Remarks on the New Comet by William Herschel Read at the Royal Society Nov 16 1786 written by William Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Women in the History of Science written by Hannah Wills and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research. Arranged by time period, covering 1200 BCE to the twenty-first century, and across 12 inclusive and far-reaching themes, this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture. While women are too often excluded from traditional narratives of the history of science, this book centres on the voices and experiences of women across a range of domains of knowledge. By questioning our understanding of what science is, where it happens, and who produces scientific knowledge, this book is an aid to liberating the curriculum within schools and universities.

Download or read book Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel written by Mrs. John Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel written by Mrs. John Herschel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel by Mrs. John Herschel

Download or read book Observations of Miss Herschel s Comet in August and September 1786 by the Rev Francis Wollaston Read at the Royal Society Dec 21 1786 written by Francis Wollaston (Rév.) and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Account of the Discovery of a New Comet written by Caroline Lucretia Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book An Account of the Discovery of a Comet written by Caroline Herschel and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short note reports the discovery of a comet by the first recognized female scientist, Caroline Herschel, the sister of the famous astronomer William Herschel. She assisted her brother in his observations and documented his results, but over time grew to become an excellent astronomer in her own right, responsible for many discoveries of comets with her trusty 27-inch (690 mm) focal length Newtonian telescope. She became the first woman to be recognized in a scientific position when, in 1786, she was paid a salary of £50 by King George III to become her brother's assistant.