Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century by Margaret Alic

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

Margaret Alic

240 pages • first pub 1986 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism history science informative inspiring slow-paced
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This work reaffirms women's substantial contributions to scientific knowledge throughout the ages, revisiting names such as Hypatia of Alexandra, astrologer and philosopher Hildegaard of Bingen, Lady Mary Montegu - who developed inoculation agains...

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