Patricia Fara
Biographic Data
| ID | 991931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Fara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Fara |
| SIGNATURE | FARA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5616-3162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Darwin Mythology
An Empire of Magnetism
Chemical 'canaries
In the early twentieth century, scientific innovations permanently changed international warfare. As chemicals traveled out of laboratories into factories and military locations, war became waged at home as well as overseas. Large numbers of women were employed in munitions factories during the First World War, but their public memories have been overshadowed by men who died on battlefields abroad; they have also been ignored in traditional histo…
Aesthetic Science
Italic>The History of Celestial Navigation
Fighting on Three Fronts
This essay proposes narrating a history of the People’s Republic of Poland with the aid of gender images and hence considers the relevance of imagery to contemporary history. Citing research into gender and pop culture, iconic depictions of masculinity and femininity are interpreted as performative signs of society and its changes. While heroes of Stalinism embodied reconstruction and the creation of a new order, post-Stalinist gender images refl…
The past as a work in progress
Originating as a presidential address during the seventieth birthday celebrations of the British Society for the History of Science, this essay reiterates the society's long-standing commitment to academic autonomy and international cooperation. Drawing examples from my own research into female scientists and doctors during the First World War, I explore how narratives written by historians are related to their own lives, both past and present. I…
Minerva Scientifica
Under the leadership of soprano Frances M Lynch, Minerva Scientifica deploys sung theatrical performances to encourage, celebrate and demonstrate the achievements of women in science and music. Based on collaborative discussions between practising female scientists and contemporary classical composers, the events staged by Minerva Scientifica are receiving high acclaim not only as educational and musical experiences for general audiences, but als…
Object Lessons
In his ingenious bid to restore grand narratives, Frans van Lunteren misleadingly implies that there is a single story to tell about the past. In its favor, his nontriumphalist and metaphorical scheme encourages contextualization and emphasizes objects rather than theories or individuals. Unfortunately, he has selected an arbitrary starting point, and his four emblematic machines—the clock, the balance, the steam engine, the computer—do not bear …
Women, science and suffrage in World War I
Oh! This War! How it is tearing down walls and barriers, and battering in fast shut doors ... Women's Liberal Review , 1915 World War I is often said to have benefited British women by giving them the vote and by enabling them to take on traditionally male roles, including ones in science, engineering and medicine. In reality, conventional hierarchies were rapidly re-established after the Armistice. Concentrating mainly on a small group of well-q…
Naturalists at Sea
Memory
Minsoo Kang. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
Few academic authors boast the distinction of having won a prize for fantasy and horror fiction, and Minsoo Kang is unusual in bringing to the study of history the expertise of both a popular writer and a professional literary scholar. In his second non-fiction book, Kang explores how the meaning and fascination of automata have changed over time. Although he does describe technological aspects of such machines, he is mainly concerned with the mo…
Why Mark Erickson should read different histories of science
Mark Erickson’s title is deliberately provocative but unintentionally ambiguous. Although his ‘I ’ indicates that this will be a fashionably personalized account, the first paragraph is written in the conventional academic style that implies objectivity – and from the begin-ning of the second, Erickson conceals his own reactions behind the all-embracing, ill-defined ‘we’. It remains unclear whether Erickson feels he ‘should ’ read his selected bo…
Political Electricity
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
The Science of Describing
Hidden depths
Edmond Halley's last portrait
Restricted accessMoreSectionsView Full TextView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Fara Patricia 2006Edmond Halley's last portraitNotes Rec. R. Soc.60199–201http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2006.0143SectionRestricted accessReportsEdmond Halley's last portrait Patricia Fara Patricia Fara [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more …
Plants and Empire
Reviewed by: Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World Patricia Fara Londa Schiebinger . Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. x + 306 pp. Ill. $39.95 (0-674-01487-1). In seventeenth-century Peru, university authorities decreed that Spanish physicians who wanted to learn about plants with medicinal properties should study the Quechuan language—but under …
Colonial Botany
Newton, Industry, and Empire
Isaac Newton and Augustan Anglo-Latin poetry
Elizabeth Tollet
Elizabeth Tollet est l'une des premieres femmes du XVIII e siecle a ecrire sur Newton dans ses poemes et a s'interesser a la philosophie naturelle, permettant ainsi de communiquer ses idees et imposer son statut
Représentations scientifiques et images poétiques en angleterre au XVIIe siècle
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
Isaac Newton lived here
Places and anniversaries can function as ‘sites of memory’, but three major Newtonian locations – Cambridge, Grantham and London – were also sites of conflict that resonated with wider debates about the nature of genius and the conduct of science. Ritualized celebrations at appropriate times and places helped not only to establish Newton's status as a local hero, national exemplar and scientific genius, but also to promote various versions of nat…
Northern possession
Northern possession: laying claim to the aurora borealis P Fara P Fara Darwin College, Cambridge, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 37–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.37 Published: 01 January 1996
A treasure of hidden vertues’
When customers like Samuel Pepys visited the shop of Thomas Tuttell, instrument maker to the king, they could purchase a pack of mathematical playing-cards. The seven of spades, reproduced as Figure 1, depicted the diverse connotations of magnets, or loadstones. These cards cost a shilling, and were too expensive for many of the surveyors, navigators and other practitioners shown using Tuttell's instruments. They provide an early example of the p…
Chemical 'canaries
In the early twentieth century, scientific innovations permanently changed international warfare. As chemicals traveled out of laboratories into factories and military locations, war became waged at home as well as overseas. Large numbers of women were employed in munitions factories during the First World War, but their public memories have been overshadowed by men who died on battlefields abroad; they have also been ignored in traditional histo…
Why Mark Erickson should read different histories of science
Mark Erickson’s title is deliberately provocative but unintentionally ambiguous. Although his ‘I ’ indicates that this will be a fashionably personalized account, the first paragraph is written in the conventional academic style that implies objectivity – and from the begin-ning of the second, Erickson conceals his own reactions behind the all-embracing, ill-defined ‘we’. It remains unclear whether Erickson feels he ‘should ’ read his selected bo…
Isaac Newton and Augustan Anglo-Latin poetry
Elizabeth Tollet
Elizabeth Tollet est l'une des premieres femmes du XVIII e siecle a ecrire sur Newton dans ses poemes et a s'interesser a la philosophie naturelle, permettant ainsi de communiquer ses idees et imposer son statut
An Atttractive Therapy
La therapie par le magnetisme pratiquee par F.A. Mesmer n'atteignit pas en Angleterre au XVIII e siecle, la notoriete qu'elle connut en France
A treasure of hidden vertues’
When customers like Samuel Pepys visited the shop of Thomas Tuttell, instrument maker to the king, they could purchase a pack of mathematical playing-cards. The seven of spades, reproduced as Figure 1, depicted the diverse connotations of magnets, or loadstones. These cards cost a shilling, and were too expensive for many of the surveyors, navigators and other practitioners shown using Tuttell's instruments. They provide an early example of the p…
An Atttractive Therapy
La therapie par le magnetisme pratiquee par F.A. Mesmer n'atteignit pas en Angleterre au XVIII e siecle, la notoriete qu'elle connut en France
Fit for a King? The George III Gallery at the Science Museum
Afin que les musees ne deviennent pas un lieu commercial de divertissement, les collections sont exposees dans les meilleures conditions apres avis de scientifiques qui collaborent aux projets de recherche
Northern possession
Northern possession: laying claim to the aurora borealis P Fara P Fara Darwin College, Cambridge, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 42, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1996, Pages 37–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.42.37 Published: 01 January 1996
Author’s response
The Royal Society's portrait of Joseph Banks
The year before he died, although disingenuously insisting that ‘I do not feel as if Vanity was a Prominent trée in my character’, Joseph Banks vituperatively rejected the ‘intended Brittle Compliment’ of a commemorative Sévres vase because he disapproved of its proposed illustrations. Just as Banks policed Enlightenment visions of the lands he had explored and the specimens he had collected, so too he carefully monitored the images of himself th…
Scientific heritage
Memory
Time's Pendulum
Isaac Newton lived here
Places and anniversaries can function as ‘sites of memory’, but three major Newtonian locations – Cambridge, Grantham and London – were also sites of conflict that resonated with wider debates about the nature of genius and the conduct of science. Ritualized celebrations at appropriate times and places helped not only to establish Newton's status as a local hero, national exemplar and scientific genius, but also to promote various versions of nat…
Représentations scientifiques et images poétiques en angleterre au XVIIe siècle
Elizabeth Tollet
Elizabeth Tollet est l'une des premieres femmes du XVIII e siecle a ecrire sur Newton dans ses poemes et a s'interesser a la philosophie naturelle, permettant ainsi de communiquer ses idees et imposer son statut
Isaac Newton and Augustan Anglo-Latin poetry
Newton, Industry, and Empire
Edmond Halley's last portrait
Restricted accessMoreSectionsView Full TextView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Fara Patricia 2006Edmond Halley's last portraitNotes Rec. R. Soc.60199–201http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2006.0143SectionRestricted accessReportsEdmond Halley's last portrait Patricia Fara Patricia Fara [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more …
Plants and Empire
Reviewed by: Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World Patricia Fara Londa Schiebinger . Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. x + 306 pp. Ill. $39.95 (0-674-01487-1). In seventeenth-century Peru, university authorities decreed that Spanish physicians who wanted to learn about plants with medicinal properties should study the Quechuan language—but under …
Colonial Botany
Political Electricity
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
The Science of Describing
Hidden depths
Why Mark Erickson should read different histories of science
Mark Erickson’s title is deliberately provocative but unintentionally ambiguous. Although his ‘I ’ indicates that this will be a fashionably personalized account, the first paragraph is written in the conventional academic style that implies objectivity – and from the begin-ning of the second, Erickson conceals his own reactions behind the all-embracing, ill-defined ‘we’. It remains unclear whether Erickson feels he ‘should ’ read his selected bo…
Memory
Minsoo Kang. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
Few academic authors boast the distinction of having won a prize for fantasy and horror fiction, and Minsoo Kang is unusual in bringing to the study of history the expertise of both a popular writer and a professional literary scholar. In his second non-fiction book, Kang explores how the meaning and fascination of automata have changed over time. Although he does describe technological aspects of such machines, he is mainly concerned with the mo…
Naturalists at Sea
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