Lady Ranelagh

preview-18
  • Lady Ranelagh Book Detail

  • Author : Michelle DiMeo
  • Release Date : 2021-05-19
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 301
  • ISBN 13 : 022673174X
  • File Size : 24,24 MB

Lady Ranelagh by Michelle DiMeo PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Lady Ranelagh books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Lady Ranelagh

Lady Ranelagh

File Size : 99,99 MB
Total View : 7084 Views
DOWNLOAD

For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her youn

Anne Conway

Anne Conway

File Size : 70,70 MB
Total View : 4665 Views
DOWNLOAD

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

Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature

File Size : 19,19 MB
Total View : 4753 Views
DOWNLOAD

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