Mary Somerville : science, illumination, and the female mind / / Kathryn A. Neeley

• Autore: Neeley Kathryn A (Kathryn Angelyn), <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 500.2/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Women scientists - Great Britain
• Altri autori: SomervilleMary <1780-1872.>
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-251) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Author's Preface -- Key to Parenthetical References to the Works of Mary Somerville -- Perceiving What Others Do Not Perceive -- 1 Head Among the Stars, Feet Firm Upon the Earth -- 2 Creating a Room of Her Own in the World of Science -- 3 Science as Exact Calculation and Elevated Meditation -- 4 The Earth, the Sea, the Air, and Their Inhabitants -- 5 Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville -- 6 Memory and Mary Somerville -- Epilogue Science, Voice, and Vision -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her gender identity and by creating rich, readable, and authoritative accounts of science that were rhetorically compelling, aesthetically satisfying, and valuable to the scientific community in the UK and abroad. This biography offers detailed analysis of the underlying patterns, themes, and rhetorical strategies of her major works and argues that Somerville employed a transcendent feminine style that retained the advantages but transcended the limitations usually associated with women's ways of knowing. The book advocates a new narrative for women's participation in science and demonstrates the many ways that gender relates to science and science functions in culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mary Somerville
• ISBN: 0-511-15652-9; 0-511-61332-6; 0-511-01965-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823245203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge science biographies.