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Author:   Francesca Antonelli ,  Antonella Romano ,  Paolo Savoia
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   9
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9789004512603

ISBN 10:   9004512608
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   17 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gender, History, and Science in Early Modern Europe  Francesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia Part 1: The Gendered Construction of Textual Traditions: The Case of Maria the Alchemist 1 Maria the Alchemist and Her Famous Heated Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition  Lucia Raggetti 2 Maria’s Practica in Early Modern Alchemy  Matteo Martelli Part 2: Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century 3 Cheese-Making and Knowledge-Making: Women’s Expertise and Men’s Explanation  Paolo Savoia 4 Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-Century Courtly Entertainment  Juliet Claxton 5 Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy  Sabrina Minuzzi Part 3: Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered Knowledge 6 The “Anonymous Neapolitan”: Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences  Paula Findlen 7 Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772–1792)  Francesca Antonelli 8 Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in 18th-century France  Amparo Fontaine Postface On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science  Paola Govoni Index

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Francesca Antonelli holds a Phd in History of Science at the University of Bologna and the EHESS, Paris. She is currently Postdoc fellow at the University of Bologna. Antonella Romano is directrice d’études at the EHESS, Paris. Paolo Savoia is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Bologna.

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