Lady Ranelagh

Author : Michelle DiMeo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226731742

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Lady Ranelagh by Michelle DiMeo Pdf

For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patroness of the European correspondence network now known as the Hartlib circle—but neither portrait captures the depth of her intellect or the range of her knowledge and influence. Philosophers, mathematicians, politicians, and religious authorities sought her opinion on everything from decimalizing the currency to producing Hebrew grammars. She practiced medicine alongside distinguished male physicians, treating some of the most elite patients in London. Her medical recipes, political commentaries, and testimony concerning the philosophers’ stone gained international circulation. She was an important influence on Boyle and a formidable thinker in her own right. Drawing from a wealth of new archival sources, Michelle DiMeo fills out Lady Ranelagh’s legacy in the context of a historically sensitive and nuanced interpretation of gender, science, and religion. The book re-creates the intellectual life of one of the most respected and influential women in seventeenth-century Europe, revealing how she managed to gain the admiration of diverse contemporaries, effect social change, and shape contemporary science.

Author : Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803299979

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Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland by Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey Pdf

Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English—and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women’s narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde—women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland—also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers’ construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.

Author : Sarah Hutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139456050

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Anne Conway by Sarah Hutton Pdf

This 2004 book was the first intellectual biography of one of the very first English women philosophers. At a time when very few women received more than basic education, Lady Anne Conway wrote an original treatise of philosophy, her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, which challenged the major philosophers of her day - Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. Sarah Hutton's study places Anne Conway in her historical and philosophical context, by reconstructing her social and intellectual milieu. She traces her intellectual development in relation to friends and associates such as Henry More, Sir John Finch, F. M. van Helmont, Robert Boyle and George Keith. And she documents Conway's debt to Cambridge Platonism and her interest in religion - an interest which extended beyond Christian orthodoxy to Quakerism, Judaism and Islam. Her book offers an insight into both the personal life of a very private woman, and the richness of seventeenth-century intellectual culture.

Author : Anna Reser,Leila McNeill
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780711248977

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Forces of Nature by Anna Reser,Leila McNeill Pdf

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science. In this thoroughly researched, authoritative work, you will discover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture – showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all. Included in the book are the stories of: Hypatia of Alexandria, one of the earliest recorded female mathematicians Maria Cunitz who corrected errors in Kepler’s work Emmy Noether who discovered fundamental laws of physics Vera Rubin one of the most influential astronomers of the twentieth century Jocelyn Bell Burnell who helped discover pulsars

Author : James Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375016975

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Memorable Women of the Puritan Times by James Anderson Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Author : Mandy Green,Sharihan Al-Akhras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000375817

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Women (Re)Writing Milton by Mandy Green,Sharihan Al-Akhras Pdf

This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton.

Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226750183

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A Social History of Truth by Steven Shapin Pdf

In A Social History of Truth, a leading scholar addresses these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity.

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780220666

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The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser Pdf

Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.

Author : Melinda Zook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137303202

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Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714 by Melinda Zook Pdf

This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the survival of the Protestant religion both at home and abroad.

Author : David Masson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3326323

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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson Pdf

Author : Toby Barnard,Jane Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1852850949

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Lord Burlington by Toby Barnard,Jane Clark Pdf

Despite Burlington's fame, surprisingly little has been written about him. Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life presents a modern reassessment of his career, while setting him in a broader context than has usually been the case, to reflect both his interests outside architecture and to present his character in the round. Architecture is given pride of place, but his other interests, in land-owning, politics and literature, are also examined, throwing much new light on an exceptionally significant and attractive figure.

Author : Georgiana Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Women
ISBN : BSB:BSB11803613

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Women in English Life from Mediaeval to Modern Times by Georgiana Hill Pdf

Author : David Masson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNR98

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The Life of John Milton: 1654-1660 by David Masson Pdf

Author : Rachel Adcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317176299

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Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 by Rachel Adcock Pdf

Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 fills that gap, exploring how female Baptists played a crucial role in the group’s formation and growth during the 1640s and 50s, by their active participation in religious and political debate, and their desire to evangelise their followers. The study significantly challenges the idea that women, as members of these congregations, were unable to write with any kind of textual authority because they were often prevented from speaking aloud in church meetings. On the contrary, Adcock shows that Baptist women found their way into print to debate points of church organisation and doctrine, to defend themselves and their congregations, to evangelise others by example and by teaching, and to prophesy, and discusses the rhetorical tactics they utilised in order to demonstrate the value of women’s contributions. In the course of the study, Adcock considers and analyses the writings of little-studied Baptist women, Deborah Huish, Katherine Sutton, and Jane Turner, as well as separatist writers Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, and Anne Venn. She also makes due connection to the more familiar work of Agnes Beaumont, Anna Trapnel, and Anne Wentworth, enabling a reassessment of the significance of those writings by placing them in this wider context. Writings by these female Baptists attracted serious attention, and, as Adcock discusses, some even found a trans-national audience.

Author : Alisha Rankin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317058328

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Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 by Alisha Rankin Pdf

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new knowledge about the human body, and new facts about the way nature worked. These 'secrets' became popular items of commerce and trade, as the quest for new and exclusive bits of information met the vibrant early modern marketplace. Whether disclosed widely in print or kept more circumspect in manuscripts, secrets helped drive an expanding interest in acquiring knowledge throughout early modern Europe. Bringing together international scholars, this volume provides a pan-European and interdisciplinary overview on the topic. Each essay offers significant new interpretations of the role played by secrets in their area of specialization. Chapters address key themes in early modern history and the history of medicine, science and technology including: the possession, circulation and exchange of secret knowledge across Europe; alchemical secrets and laboratory processes; patronage and the upper-class market for secrets; medical secrets and the emerging market for proprietary medicines; secrets and cosmetics; secrets and the body and finally gender and secrets.