For much of human history, women were officially excluded from the scientific realm. However, in spite of their invisibility in the history narrative, this did not mean that science was exclusively a man’s world. Many women, throughout the centuries, have managed to overcome their marginalisation and excel in their chosen field, making vital contributions to the sum of human knowledge.
With this book we would like to celebrate European women scientists throughout the ages. The book tells the compelling stories of some of the heroines of European science – some sung but many unsung – and, through their narratives, it enriches and completes the history of scientific knowledge by highlighting its female face.
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- 00 Title and Introduction Heroines of Science [MP3] 3.0 MB
- 01 Hypatia of Alexandria [MP3] 11.3 MB
- 02 Hildegard Von Bingen [MP3] 14.6 MB
- 03 Lady Margaret Cavendish [MP3] 17.5 MB
- 04 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia [MP3] 16.1 MB
- 05 Maria Sibylla Merian [MP3] 18.1 MB
- 06 Maria Margarethe Winkelmann-Kirch [MP3] 19.6 MB
- 07 Emilie Du Chatelet [MP3] 18.4 MB
- 08 Laura Maria Caterina Bassi [MP3] 18.9 MB
- 09 Maria Gaetana Agnesi [MP3] 15.4 MB
- 10 Caroline Herschel [MP3] 17.6 MB
- 11 Sophie Germain [MP3] 17.1 MB
- 12 Mary Somerville [MP3] 18.4 MB
- 13 Jeanne Villepreux Power [MP3] 15.1 MB
- 14 Ada Lovelace [MP3] 17.0 MB
- 15 Eleanor Ormerod [MP3] 17.8 MB
- 16 Clemence Augustiner [MP3] 19.3 MB
- 17 Agnes Mary Clerke [MP3] 13.6 MB
- 18 Elizaveta Federovna Litvinova [MP3] 18.1 MB
- 19 Iulia Lermontova [MP3] 15.2 MB
- 20 Sofia Kovalevskaya [MP3] 18.5 MB
- 21 Hertha Marks Ayrton [MP3] 15.5 MB
- 22 Marie Curie-Sklodowska [MP3] 19.4 MB
- 23 Kristine Bonnevie [MP3] 19.9 MB
- 24 Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanassyeva [MP3] 18.0 MB
- 25 Lise Meitner [MP3] 16.7 MB
- 26 Gertrud Jan Woker [MP3] 17.5 MB
- 27 Ellen Gleditsch [MP3] 16.9 MB
- 28 Emmy Noether [MP3] 17.7 MB
- 29 Johanna Westerdijk [MP3] 16.5 MB
- 30 Agnes Sjoberg [MP3] 17.4 MB
- 31 Paula Hertwig [MP3] 17.3 MB
- 32 Gerty Radnitz Cori [MP3] 17.4 MB
- 33 Irene Joliot Curie [MP3] 15.5 MB
- 34 Elizaveta Karamihailova [MP3] 16.9 MB
- 35 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin [MP3] 18.1 MB
- 36 Elise Kaer-Kingisepp [MP3] 15.9 MB
- 37 Rozsa Peter [MP3] 15.8 MB
- 38 Marie Goeppert-Mayer [MP3] 19.0 MB
- 39 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin [MP3] 15.5 MB
- 40 Rosalind Franklin [MP3] 17.8 MB
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