Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook

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Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
A note on pronouns
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Ancient ways of knowing (1200 BCE–900 CE)
1 Tappūtī-bēlat-ekalle (fl. 1200 BCE): A cuneiform tablet on Middle Assyrian perfumery (c.1200 BCE)
2 Circe: An extract from Homer’s Odyssey (c. 900–800 BCE)
3 Anonymous: Dialogue of the Philosophers and Cleopatra (c. 600–700 CE)
4 The Southern Moche group: A ceramic vessel from coastal Peru (c. 200–900 CE)
5 Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 350–415 CE): Letter from Synesius of Cyrene to Paeonius (c. 355–415 CE)
Part II Materials and manuscripts (900–1600 CE)
6 Ku‘ayba bt. Sa‘d al-Aslamiyya (fl. 620 CE): An extract from Kitab al-tabaqat al-kubra (Book of the Great Generations) (c. 600–900 CE)
7 Mariam al-Ijli al-Asturlabi (c. tenth century CE): An extract from Fihrist al-Nadim (Index) (c. 998 CE)
8 Josian: Extracts from the Middle English romance Bevis of Hampton (c. 1300 CE)
9 Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587 CE), Elizabeth Talbot (1527–1608 CE) and members of the Queen’s household: The Oxburgh Hangings (1569–1585 CE)
Part III Producing knowledge (1600–1700)
10 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673): Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy, The Blazing World and Poems and Fancies (1668)
11 Mrs Mary Chantrell (fl. 1690): Book of receipts (1690–1693)
12 Sati-un-Nisa (d. 1646): Ma’asir-ul-Umara (Biography of the Notables) (1780) and photographs of the mausoleum Saheli Burj (Female Companion’s Monument) (2020)
13 Marie Crous (fl. 1641): Extracts from two of her mathematical works, the Advis de Marie Crous (1636) and Abbrégé recherché de Marie Crous (1641)
Part IV Art, gender and knowledge (1700s)
14 Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717): Extract from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (The Metamorphosis of Insectsin Surinam) (1705)
15 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774): Self-portrait in wax (1755)
16 Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck (1715–1785): Frontispiece to A Catalogue of the Portland Museum (1786)
17 Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier (1758–1836): Illustration in a scientific text (c. 1790)
Part V Societies and networks of science (1660–1850s)
18 Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833): An extract from Discurso sobre la educación física y moral de las mujeres (Discourse on women’s physical and moral education) (1790)
19 Ekaterina Romanova Dashkova (1744–1810): An extract from Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II (1840)
20 Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750–1848): An extract from Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876)
21 Lady Jane Davy (c. 1780–1855): As described in two extracts from her contemporaries (1812 and 1815)
22 The Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito (Committee of Ladies of Honour and Merit): Children’s parchments in the Madrid Foundling House (1802)
Part VI Maps, scientific travel and colonialism (1800s)
23 Women travellers in Africa: Map by Friedrich Welwitsch (c. 1853–1860)
24 Martha Luise Sophie Bielenstein (1861–1938): Map of ‘The Latvian Language Area’ (1892)
25 Thomasina Ross (fl. 1850s): Title page of Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative of Travels (1852–1853)
26 Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822–1907): The Hassler expedition (1871–1872)
Part VII Representations of the natural world (1800s)
27 Margaret Meen (fl. 1775–1824), Sarah Anne Drake (1803–1857), and Marianne North (1830–1890): Three botanical illustrations from women with connections to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
28 Eleanor Ormerod (1828–1901): Entomological specimens presented to the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew Gardens (1875–1880)
29 Emina María Jackson y Zaragoza (1858–?): Illustration of Diospyros embryopteris in the third edition of Manuel Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas (Flora of the Philippines) (1877–1883)
30 Sally Paul (fl. 1860s): Captain Campbell Hardy’s ‘Indian Remedy for Smallpox’, Teranaki Herald (1872)
Part VIII Women and geology – a case study (1823–1919)
31 Mary Anning (1799–1847): Letters from Anning to Sir Henry Bunbury (1823)
32 Etheldred Benett (1775–1845): Preface to Catalogue of the Organic Remains of the County of Wiltshire (1831)
33 Gertrude Lilian Elles (1872–1960): Geological hammers
Part IX Education, access and agency (1850–1905)
34 Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852): Anonymous obituary published in The Examiner (1852)
35 Mary Seacole (1805–1881): Extract from Seacole’s autobiography Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
36 Sarah Emily Davies (1830–1921): A letter to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1873)
37 Dr Laura Esther Rodríguez Dulanto (1872–1919): Introductory passage to her medical surgery doctoral dissertation, Perú (1900)
38 Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (1856–1917): Extract from Woman as Family Doctor (1905)
Part X Women in the scientific workforce (1890–1950)
39 Rural Portuguese women: Image of silkworm sorting using the Pasteur method (1890–1900)
40 Funü zazhi, 婦女雜誌 (The Ladies’ Journal): Three illustrations from the magazine (c. 1915–1931)
41 ‘Women Engineers in the Field of Radio Telegraphy’: Extract from The Woman Engineer (1922)
42 Women demonstrating electrical appliances: Public Demonstration of Appliance Utilities, Barcelona (1934)
43 Women in Portuguese archaeology: A photograph of the Vila Nova de São Pedro excavation team (early 1950s)
Part XI Women and the institutions of science (1910–1950)
44 Elsie Wakefield (1886–1972): Photograph of a fungi foray in Epping Forest, England (c. 1910)
45 Caroline Eustis Seely (1887–1961): A letter to the American Mathematical Society (1922)
46 Anna Tumarkin (1875–1951): A translation of an excerpt from her Methoden der Psychologischen Forschung (Methods of Psychological Inquiry) (1929)
47 Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971): A letter to Hubert Peet, editor of The Friend magazine (1945)
48 Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958): ‘Photograph 51’ and a 50 pence piece marking the centenary of her birth
Part XII Embodied female experiences of science (1965–present)
49 Margaret ‘Peggy’ Ann Lucas (b. 1947): 2013 interview with Spaceflight Insider about the Tektite II mission (1970)
50 Unnamed female monkey: Image of monkeys in a breeding programme for polio vaccine testing (1978–2005)
51 Unnamed working-class woman: Handwritten family recipe (1980s)
52 Stephanie Shirley (b. 1933), Janet Thomson (b. 1942), Sue Vine (fl. 1960s), and Charlotte Armah (b. 1970): Extracts from ‘An Oral History of British Science’ transcripts (2009–2015)
Epilogue: Going forward and liberating the curriculum
Index
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