Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars

Margaret Wertheim

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ISBN 10: 081292200X ISBN 13: 9780812922004

Published by Crown, 1995

Language: English

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Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars

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Crown

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1995

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English

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081292200X

ISBN 13

9780812922004

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Hard Cover

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New

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This astute social and cultural history of physics explores how the development of physics has been intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community, the science itself, and the picture of reality it portrays.

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social and cultural history of physics explores how the development of physics has been intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community, the science itself, and the picture of reality it portrays.

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