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

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. 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 Meredith K. Ray. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English