Newton for ladies: gentility, gender and radical culture
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Newton for ladies: gentility, gender and radical culture
Francesco Algarotti’sNewtonianism for Ladies (1737), a series of lively dialogues on optics, was a landmark in the popularization of Newtonian philosophy. In this essay I shall explore Algarotti’s sociocultural world, his aims and ambitions, and the meaning he attached to his own work. In particular I shall focus on Algarotti’s self-promotional strategies, his deployment of gendered images and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the History of Science
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0007-0874,1474-001X
DOI: 10.1017/s0007087404005400