Daughters of Alchemy

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Daughters of Alchemy is written by Meredith K. Ray and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674425898 (ISBN 10) and 9780674425897 (ISBN 13).

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.