Daughters of Alchemy : : Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy / / Meredith K. Ray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• VerfasserIn: Ray, Meredith K.,
• MitwirkendeR: Erculiani, Camilla,; Fonte, Moderata,; Marinella, Lucrezia,; Sarrocchi, Margherita,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 10 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 Caterina Sforza's Experiments with Alchemy --; 2 The Secrets of Isabella Cortese: Practical Alchemy and Women Readers --; 3 Scientific Culture and the Renaissance Querelle des Femmes --; 4 Scientifi c Circles in Italy and Abroad --; Epilogue --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674425873; 9783110439687; 9783110438635; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674425873
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Meredith K. Ray.

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women's intellectual equality to men.