Woman in Science: With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind

H.J. Mozans

ISBN 10: 0268019460 / ISBN 13: 9780268019464

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, 1991

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1991. New. Paperback. Clean copy.Large format paperback. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Woman in Science: With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268019460
• ISBN 13: 9780268019464
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

[...]never was there a more perfect flowering of female intelligence of the highest order. According to tradition, there appeared in the favored land of Hellas, when the entire population of the country was not equal to that of a fair-sized modern city, within the brief space of a century, no fewer than seventy-six women poets. When we remember that the Renaissance produced only about sixty female poets, though in a more extended territory and with a much larger population, and that none of them could approach the incomparable Sappho, or even many[...].