Nina Rattner Gelbart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Rattner Gelbart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina Rattner |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelbart |
| SIGNATURE | GELBART N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Minerva’s French Sisters
Minerva's French Sisters
Mathematician and Philosopher
This chapter traces the early life of mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand. It documents her interest in the sciences from an early age as well as her accomplishment as a mathematician, in which she won the respect of various members of the Bernoulli dynasty in Basel. A professed Newtonian before Mme Du Châtelet, she had also been taught by her longtime friend Lévesque de Pouilly, who was readily acknowledged by Voltaire as the man who…
Dear Jeanne
Mostly, I wonder what really happened once Bougainville left you and Philibert off on Isle de France. Did he desert you? Did he expose you? Or was your story perhaps not spread about, making it possible to remain in disguise as if nothing had happened and to continue as his manservant? Hard to believe you would have agreed to prolong such painful sartorial constraints. Yet given your zeal for science you might have, and even taken a new name, hid…
Botany in the Field and in the Garden
This chapter deals with two enthusiastic contributors to botany: field naturalist Jeanne Barret and botanical illustrator Madeleine Françoise Basseporte. The chapter notes that these intrepid women deliberately positioned themselves and thrived in their scientific work surrounded by some of the most celebrated naturalists of their day. It then introduces Bernard de Jussieu, generally revered as the “Newton of botany,” George Louis Leclerc, Compte…
Dear Marie-Marguerite
I visit your ghost in several places as I stroll around the 5th arrondissement. You had two addresses on the rue de l’Estrapade behind and south of what is now the Pantheon, the first on the corner of the rue des Poules, today rue Laromiguière—although there’s some ambiguity because the building adjoins the one next to it on the corner of the parallel rue Tournefort. Of course there is a plaque about Diderot having lived there, but no mention of …
Anatomist and Inventor
This chapter concerns anatomist Marie-Marguerite Biheron, who analyzed the human body, taking it apart in countless dissections to elucidate the hidden internal structures. It examines Biheron's “ anatomie artificielle ” that she fashioned, displayed, and taught with for decades in her private home museum. The chapter also looks at her models, made from a formula of her own invention that neither melted nor broke, which were said to imitate the h…
The Blonding of Charlotte Corday
Despite all evidence to the contrary, many authors writing about Charlotte Corday, the famous bathtub murderess of Jean-Paul Marat, described her as blonde. One of the only pictures to show Corday as fair-haired--powdered in fact--was a crime scene done at the time of the murder by Jean-Jacques Hauer, an artist who very much admired her and portrayed her flatteringly. For his own protection Hauer needed to suggest that she was a counter-revolutio…
The Monarchy's Midwife Who Left No Memoirs
Biographies do not generally stress how little is actually known about their subject, or boast that they are approximations, or celebrate the partial. They tend not to be riddled with ruptures and disjunctions and confessional knows? Most of them seek to tell a seamless or at least orderly tale, to emphasize continuity between causes and consequences, to demonstrate an inexorable unfolding from cradle to coffin, to arrive at completeness and clos…
Traces des femmes
(1990). Traces des femmes: Presence feminine dans le journalisme francais du 18e siecle. History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 136-137
The French revolution as medical event
"Frondeur" Journalism in the 1770s
Nina R. Gelbart, "Frondeur" Journalism in the 1770s: Theater Criticism and Radical Politics in the Prerevolutionary French Press, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, Special Issue: The Printed Word in the Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1984), pp. 493-514
The Radical Enlightenment
Science and Immortality
The Intellectual Development of Walter Charleton
(1971). The Intellectual Development of Walter Charleton. Ambix: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 149-168.
The Monarchy's Midwife Who Left No Memoirs
Biographies do not generally stress how little is actually known about their subject, or boast that they are approximations, or celebrate the partial. They tend not to be riddled with ruptures and disjunctions and confessional knows? Most of them seek to tell a seamless or at least orderly tale, to emphasize continuity between causes and consequences, to demonstrate an inexorable unfolding from cradle to coffin, to arrive at completeness and clos…
The Blonding of Charlotte Corday
Despite all evidence to the contrary, many authors writing about Charlotte Corday, the famous bathtub murderess of Jean-Paul Marat, described her as blonde. One of the only pictures to show Corday as fair-haired--powdered in fact--was a crime scene done at the time of the murder by Jean-Jacques Hauer, an artist who very much admired her and portrayed her flatteringly. For his own protection Hauer needed to suggest that she was a counter-revolutio…
"Frondeur" Journalism in the 1770s
Nina R. Gelbart, "Frondeur" Journalism in the 1770s: Theater Criticism and Radical Politics in the Prerevolutionary French Press, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, Special Issue: The Printed Word in the Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1984), pp. 493-514
The Intellectual Development of Walter Charleton
(1971). The Intellectual Development of Walter Charleton. Ambix: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 149-168.
Science and Immortality
The Radical Enlightenment
"Frondeur" Journalism in the 1770s
Nina R. Gelbart, "Frondeur" Journalism in the 1770s: Theater Criticism and Radical Politics in the Prerevolutionary French Press, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, Special Issue: The Printed Word in the Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1984), pp. 493-514
The French revolution as medical event
Traces des femmes
(1990). Traces des femmes: Presence feminine dans le journalisme francais du 18e siecle. History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 136-137
The Monarchy's Midwife Who Left No Memoirs
Biographies do not generally stress how little is actually known about their subject, or boast that they are approximations, or celebrate the partial. They tend not to be riddled with ruptures and disjunctions and confessional knows? Most of them seek to tell a seamless or at least orderly tale, to emphasize continuity between causes and consequences, to demonstrate an inexorable unfolding from cradle to coffin, to arrive at completeness and clos…
The Blonding of Charlotte Corday
Despite all evidence to the contrary, many authors writing about Charlotte Corday, the famous bathtub murderess of Jean-Paul Marat, described her as blonde. One of the only pictures to show Corday as fair-haired--powdered in fact--was a crime scene done at the time of the murder by Jean-Jacques Hauer, an artist who very much admired her and portrayed her flatteringly. For his own protection Hauer needed to suggest that she was a counter-revolutio…
Minerva’s French Sisters
Minerva's French Sisters
Mathematician and Philosopher
This chapter traces the early life of mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand. It documents her interest in the sciences from an early age as well as her accomplishment as a mathematician, in which she won the respect of various members of the Bernoulli dynasty in Basel. A professed Newtonian before Mme Du Châtelet, she had also been taught by her longtime friend Lévesque de Pouilly, who was readily acknowledged by Voltaire as the man who…
Dear Jeanne
Mostly, I wonder what really happened once Bougainville left you and Philibert off on Isle de France. Did he desert you? Did he expose you? Or was your story perhaps not spread about, making it possible to remain in disguise as if nothing had happened and to continue as his manservant? Hard to believe you would have agreed to prolong such painful sartorial constraints. Yet given your zeal for science you might have, and even taken a new name, hid…
Botany in the Field and in the Garden
This chapter deals with two enthusiastic contributors to botany: field naturalist Jeanne Barret and botanical illustrator Madeleine Françoise Basseporte. The chapter notes that these intrepid women deliberately positioned themselves and thrived in their scientific work surrounded by some of the most celebrated naturalists of their day. It then introduces Bernard de Jussieu, generally revered as the “Newton of botany,” George Louis Leclerc, Compte…
Dear Marie-Marguerite
I visit your ghost in several places as I stroll around the 5th arrondissement. You had two addresses on the rue de l’Estrapade behind and south of what is now the Pantheon, the first on the corner of the rue des Poules, today rue Laromiguière—although there’s some ambiguity because the building adjoins the one next to it on the corner of the parallel rue Tournefort. Of course there is a plaque about Diderot having lived there, but no mention of …
Anatomist and Inventor
This chapter concerns anatomist Marie-Marguerite Biheron, who analyzed the human body, taking it apart in countless dissections to elucidate the hidden internal structures. It examines Biheron's “ anatomie artificielle ” that she fashioned, displayed, and taught with for decades in her private home museum. The chapter also looks at her models, made from a formula of her own invention that neither melted nor broke, which were said to imitate the h…
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