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The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Nature, Self-Knowing Matter, and the Dialogic Universe
This chapter explores the contributions to science of natural philosopher, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673). Over a career...
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From the Determination of the Ohm to the Discovery of Argon: Lord Rayleigh’s Strategies of Experimental Control
Theory and experiment went hand in hand in the work of Lord Rayleigh, in which the quest for rigor was a ubiquitous theme. To Rayleigh’s mind,...
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Educational Opportunities for Girls and Women
By the late nineteenth century more young women could learn the language of science, thanks to educationists, such as Miss Beale (Cheltenham Ladies...
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Twining the Threads
This chapter discusses how physicists combined instruments and techniques developed during WWII and the immediate postwar in different disciplines to...
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Women in the History of Science: Frameworks, Themes and Contested Perspectives
This introductory chapter maps the history and historiography of women in science, illustrating how women have been neglected due in part to the...
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The Doctoral Dissertation of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712): The Nervous Fluids and Iatrochymistry in Context
The purpose of this paper is to set the doctoral dissertation of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) in context of seventeenth-century iatrochymical studies of...
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Appendices
This section consists of various supplementary and complementary appendices, including a Glossary of Terms that appear in Pw V90 and Harley 6491, a...
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Marie Curie (1867–1934): Pioneer of Nuclear Physics
Few people are aware that Marie Curie, probably the world's most famous scientist to this day, was officially Russian and thus a compatriot of Sofia...
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Scientists
Today it may appear strange that physics was not represented by an allegorical statue by the Victorians, whereas geometry, philosophy, astronomy, and...
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Laura Bassi (1711–1778): The World’s First Female University Professor
After Hypatia’s death, it would be seven centuries before another woman, Hildegard of Bingen, asserted herself in the male-dominated domain of...
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Difficult Relations, 1882–1891
Much has been written on how the cause, or the British nineteenth-century movement towards women’s higher learning, dramatically altered women’s...
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Marie Curie (1867–1934)
Nur wenige Menschen sind sich dessen bewusst, dass Marie Curie, die bis heute wohl bekannteste Wissenschaftlerin der Welt offiziell Russin und damit...
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Miss Sargant and a Botanical Web
After Girton College and research at The Jodrell Laboratory, Ethel Sargant set up her own laboratory (‘Little Jodrell’), employing talented young...
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Observations and Reflections
The story of the growth of Western science in general and of particle physics in particular has many interesting lessons. The first is that Western...
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John Desmond Bernal and “Bernalism”
This chapter focuses on John Desmond Bernal, whose work as a historian highlighted the socioeconomic dimension of science and technology. Bernal, a...
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John Desmond Bernal and “Bernalism”
This chapter focuses on John Desmond Bernal, whose work as a historian highlighted the socioeconomic dimension of science and technology. Bernal, a...
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Libraries, Laboratories, and Learning Spaces
This chapter looks at how interactions between male and female students were not just governed by informal rules, such as a preference for women to...
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Bhabha and Sarabhai
Two Indians—Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai—were the most successful institution builders in newly-independent India. Bhabha came from the affluent...
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Sources of Entangled Photons
This chapter discusses how the deepening theoretical and experimental understanding of processes of light and matter interactions and the...
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The Funnelling Effect of the Sanger Institute
In this chapter, we focus on an institution that represents the exclusivity of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (IHGSC) while...