Becoming a Scientist
Gender and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4821178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paula Findlen (0000-0001-5000-7794, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 59-87 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science in Context (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s026988970300070x |
| OpenAlex | W2117900453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 10 |
ArgumentThis essay explores how and why women involved themselves in the sciences in eighteenth-century Italy. Using the case study of Diamante Medaglia Faini, a poet who attempted to become a mathematician, it argues that the image of the woman natural philosopher was shaped by the visible presence of woman in scientific institutions in the mid-eighteenth century and by the tradition of popular scientific writing, best embodied in the works of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and Francesco Algarotti, that made the woman natural philosopher an important literary protagonist. Becoming a scientist, in other words, was both a reality and a fiction. The tensions between these two different images shaped the terrain in which women pursued science
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Art history · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Literature · Natural (archaeology · Natural science · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Chemistry · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |