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  1. Inferior
    how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story
    Author: Saini, Angela
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Beacon Press, Boston

    "What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their... more

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    "What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists...primarily men...claimed to find evidence to support this. From intelligence to emotion, cognition to behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew. The new woman revealed by this scientific data is as strong, powerful, strategic, and smart as anyone else. In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating...and sorely necessary...new science of women. She takes readers on a journey to uncover science's failure to understand women and to show how women's bodies and minds are finally being rediscovered. Saini tells this alternate story of science with personal stories, controversial research, and an investigation into the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology"...

     
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  2. The scientific sublime
    popular science unravels the mysteries of the universe
    Author: Gross, Alan G.
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    "The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a... more

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    "The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom. In The Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He shows how the great popular scientists of our time--Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, and E. O. Wilson--evoke the sublime in response to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? How did life? How did language?."

     
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  3. The Duchess's shells
    natural history collecting in the age of Cook's voyages
    Author: Tobin, Beth Fowkes
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven [u.a.]

    "Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in eighteenth-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was... more

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    "Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in eighteenth-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was natural history, and shells in particular. Over the course of twenty years, she amassed the largest shell collection of her time, which was sold after her death in a spectacular auction. Beth Fowkes Tobin illuminates the interlocking issues surrounding the global circulation of natural resources, the commodification of nature, and the construction of scientific value through the lens of one woman's marvelous collection. This unique study tells the story of the collection's formation and dispersal-about the sailors and naturalists who ferried rare specimens across oceans and the dealers' shops and connoisseurs' cabinets on the other side of the world. Exquisitely illustrated, this book brings to life Enlightenment natural history and its cultures of collecting, scientific expeditions, and vibrant visual culture"..

     
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  4. Artful experiments
    ways of knowing in Victorian literature and science
    Author: Erchinger, Philipp
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing; Chapter 1 The Art of Science:... more

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    The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left Intro; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Experiment and the Art of Writing; Chapter 1 The Art of Science: Nineteenth-Century Theory and the Logic of Practice; Chapter 2 Learning by Experiment: T. H. Huxley and the Aesthetic Nature of Education; Chapter 3 Following the Actors: G. H. Lewes's and George Eliot's Studies in Life; Chapter 4 Steps Towards an Ecology of Experience: Empiricism, Pragmatism and George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy; Chapter 5 Speech in Action: Victorian Philology and the Uprooting of Language Chapter 6 William Morris's 'Work-Pleasure': Literature, Science and Fine ArtChapter 7 Robert Browning's Experiment: Composition and Communication in The Ring and the Book; Chapter 8 The Making of Sensation Fiction; Clothing Matter: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus; Bibliography; Index. - The first book-length study to provide a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781474438957; 1474438970; 1474438989
    RVK Categories: HL 1091 ; HL 1031
    Series: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
    Subjects: Science; SCIENCE / History; SCIENCE; Science
    Scope: ix, 310 Seiten
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 272-296
  5. Invisibility
    the history and science of how not to be seen
    Author: Gbur, Greg
    Published: [2023]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven ; London

    "Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical... more

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    "Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections, including the discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum, the development of the atomic model, and quantum theory. He shows how invisibility has moved from fiction to reality, and he questions the hidden paths that lie ahead for researchers"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780300250428
    Subjects: Technologie; Unsichtbarkeit; Optik; Forschung
    Other subjects: Invisibility; SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light; SCIENCE / History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics; Invisibility; Nonfiction
    Scope: viii, 280 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 253-268. - Index
  6. Manipulating the sun
    picturing astronomical miracles from the Bible in the early modern era
    Contributor: Ellinghaus, Julia (Publisher); Remmert, Volker R. (Publisher)
    Published: [2024]; © 2024
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden ; Boston

    The first interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted role of the prominent biblical miracles of the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahas) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 in Early Modern exegesis,... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    The first interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted role of the prominent biblical miracles of the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahas) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 in Early Modern exegesis, arts and sciences

     
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  7. Luigi Ghirri and the photography of place
    interdisciplinary perspectives
    Contributor: Spunta, Marina (Publisher); Benci, Jacopo (Publisher)
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford

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  8. Hispanic ecocriticism
    Contributor: Marrero Henríquez, José Manuel (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Berlin

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  9. OuLiPo and the mathematics of literature
    Author: Berkman, Natalie
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781789977806; 1789977800
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    9781789977806
    DDC Categories: 840
    Series: Modern French identities ; 141
    Subjects: Oulipo;
    Other subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; MATHEMATICS / General; SCIENCE / History; Mathematics; History of science; Digital Humanities; Experimental literature; Literature; OuLiPo
    Scope: xii, 310 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis Seite: [291]-303
  10. Natural magic
    Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the dawn of modern science
    Author: Bergland, Renée L.
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    "A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets,... more

     

    "A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical-and too dangerous for women.Natural Magic intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin's work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson's poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renée Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world.Illuminating and insightful, Natural Magic explores how Dickinson and Darwin refused to accept the separation of art and science. Today, more than ever, we need to reclaim their shared sense of ecological wonder"--

     
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  11. Pathologies of motion
    historical thinking in medicine, aesthetics, and poetics
    Author: Goodman, Kevis
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven & London

    An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds This book studies later... more

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    An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds This book studies later eighteenth-century medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as overlapping forms of knowledge increasingly concerned about the relationship between the geographical movements of persons displaced from home and the physiological or nervous "motions" within their bodies and minds. Looking beyond familiar narratives about medicine and art's shared therapeutic and harmonizing ideals, this book explores Enlightenment and Romantic-era aesthetics and poetics in relation to a central but less well known area of eighteenth-century environmental medicine: pathology. No mere system of diagnosis or classification, philosophical pathology was an art of interpretation, offering sophisticated ways of reading the multiple conditions and causes of disease, however absent from perception, in their palpable, embodied effects. For medical, anthropological, environmental, and literary authors alike, it helped to locate the dislocations of modern mobility when a full view of their causes and conditions remained imperfectly understood or still unfolding. Goodman traces the surprising afterlife of the period's exemplary but unexplained pathology of motion, medical nostalgia, within aesthetic theory and poetics, arguing that nostalgia persisted there not as a named condition but as a set of formal principles and practices, perturbing claims about the harmony, freedom, and free play of the mind

     
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  12. Natural magic
    Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the dawn of modern science
    Author: Bergland, Renée L.
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    "A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets,... more

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    "A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical-and too dangerous for women.Natural Magic intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin's work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson's poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renée Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world.Illuminating and insightful, Natural Magic explores how Dickinson and Darwin refused to accept the separation of art and science. Today, more than ever, we need to reclaim their shared sense of ecological wonder"--

     
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  13. Manipulating the sun
    picturing astronomical miracles from the Bible in the early Modern Era
    Contributor: Ellinghaus, Julia (HerausgeberIn); Remmert, Volker R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    The first interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted role of the prominent biblical miracles of the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahas) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 in Early Modern exegesis,... more

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    The first interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted role of the prominent biblical miracles of the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahas) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 in Early Modern exegesis, arts and sciences

     
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  14. Birth figures
    early modern prints and the pregnant body
    Author: Whiteley, Rebecca
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments;... more

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    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments; Visualizing touch and defining a professional persona -- Part III: The birth figure persists (1751-1774). Challenging the Hunterian hegemony -- Conclusion. "The first full study of "birth figures," a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images' creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins in ancient medicine and explores their inclusion in many medieval gynecological manuscripts, focusing on their explosion in printed midwifery and surgical books from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century in Western Europe. During this period, birth figures formed a key part of the visual culture of medicine and midwifery and were widely produced. They reflected and shaped how the pregnant body was known and treated. And by providing crucial bodily knowledge to midwives and surgeons, birth figures were also deeply entangled with wider cultural preoccupations with generation and creativity, female power and agency, knowledge and its dissemination, and even the condition of the human in the universe. Birth Figures studies how different kinds of people understood childbirth and engaged with midwifery manuals, from learned physicians to midwives to illiterate listeners. Rich and detailed, this vital history reveals the importance of birth figures in how midwifery was practiced and in how people, both medical professionals and lay readers, envisioned and understood the mysterious state of pregnancy. "--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226823126
    Subjects: Obstetrics; Midwifery; Childbirth in art; Pregnancy in art; Fetus in art; Medical illustration; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Medicine and art; SCIENCE / History; ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
    Scope: xiv, 288 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259-280
  15. Manipulating the sun
    picturing astronomical miracles from the Bible in the early modern era
    Contributor: Ellinghaus, Julia (Herausgeber); Remmert, Volker R (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2024]; © 2024
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden ; Boston

    The first interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted role of the prominent biblical miracles of the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahas) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 in Early Modern exegesis,... more

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    The first interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted role of the prominent biblical miracles of the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahas) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 in Early Modern exegesis, arts and sciences

     
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  16. The perversity of things
    Hugo Gernsback on media, tinkering, and scientifiction
    Author: Gernsback, Hugo
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis ; London

    "In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in... more

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    "In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction's annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback's vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and the emergence of media studies. Wythoff argues that Gernsback developed a means of describing and assessing the cultural impact of emerging media long before media studies became an academic discipline. From editorials and blueprints to media histories, critical essays, and short fiction, Wythoff has collected a wide range of Gernsback's writings that have been out of print since their magazine debut in the early 1900s. These articles cover such topics as television; the regulation of wireless/radio; war and technology; speculative futures; media-archaeological curiosities like the dynamophone and hypnobioscope; and more. All together, this collection shows how Gernsback's publications evolved from an electrical parts catalog to a full-fledged literary genre. The Perversity of Things aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff reintroduces us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction"...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Wythoff, Grant (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781517900847; 9781517900854
    RVK Categories: AP 53900 ; HG 672
    Series: Electronic mediations ; 52
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy / bisacsh; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays / bisacsh; SCIENCE / History / bisacsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; SCIENCE / History
    Scope: xvi, 359 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  17. Inferior
    how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story
    Author: Saini, Angela
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Beacon Press, Boston

    "What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their... more

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    "What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists...primarily men...claimed to find evidence to support this. From intelligence to emotion, cognition to behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew. The new woman revealed by this scientific data is as strong, powerful, strategic, and smart as anyone else. In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating...and sorely necessary...new science of women. She takes readers on a journey to uncover science's failure to understand women and to show how women's bodies and minds are finally being rediscovered. Saini tells this alternate story of science with personal stories, controversial research, and an investigation into the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology"...

     
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  18. Birth figures
    early modern prints and the pregnant body
    Author: Whiteley, Rebecca
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments;... more

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    Introduction: picturing pregnancy -- Part I: Early printed birth figures (1540-1672). Using images in midwifery practice; Pluralistic images and the early modern body -- Part II: Birth figures as agents of change (1672-1751). Visual experiments; Visualizing touch and defining a professional persona -- Part III: The birth figure persists (1751-1774). Challenging the Hunterian hegemony -- Conclusion. "The first full study of "birth figures," a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images' creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins in ancient medicine and explores their inclusion in many medieval gynecological manuscripts, focusing on their explosion in printed midwifery and surgical books from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century in Western Europe. During this period, birth figures formed a key part of the visual culture of medicine and midwifery and were widely produced. They reflected and shaped how the pregnant body was known and treated. And by providing crucial bodily knowledge to midwives and surgeons, birth figures were also deeply entangled with wider cultural preoccupations with generation and creativity, female power and agency, knowledge and its dissemination, and even the condition of the human in the universe. Birth Figures studies how different kinds of people understood childbirth and engaged with midwifery manuals, from learned physicians to midwives to illiterate listeners. Rich and detailed, this vital history reveals the importance of birth figures in how midwifery was practiced and in how people, both medical professionals and lay readers, envisioned and understood the mysterious state of pregnancy. "--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226823126
    Subjects: Obstetrics; Midwifery; Childbirth in art; Pregnancy in art; Fetus in art; Medical illustration; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Illustration of books; Medicine and art; SCIENCE / History; ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
    Scope: xiv, 288 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259-280
  19. Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar
    Essays in Honor of Mordechai Feingold
    Contributor: Manning, Gideon (HerausgeberIn); Roos, Anna Marie (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing AG, Cham

    This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's... more

     

    This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the dynamic pedagogical techniques employed in early modern universities, networks of communication through which scientific knowledge was shared, experimental techniques and knowledge production, the life and times of Isaac Newton, Newton's reception, and the scientific culture of the Royal Society. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Feingold as well as the essential role of archival studies, the volume attests to the enduring value of his scholarship and sets a benchmark for future work in the history of science and its allied fields

     
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    Contributor: Manning, Gideon (HerausgeberIn); Roos, Anna Marie (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783031097249
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
    Series: Archimedes
    Subjects: ART / General; Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft; Geschichte; Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften; Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie; HISTORY / General; History of science; History: specific events & topics; Kunst, allgemein; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; SCIENCE / History; The arts: general issues
    Scope: 390 Seiten
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    Chapter1 Introduction.- Part I History of Universities.- Part II Intellectual History.- Part III Newton.- Part IV Royal Society Luminaries.- Publications of Mordechai Feingold.- index.