Patricia Fara is a Senior Tutor at Clare College at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches history of science. She is also the author of Newton: The Making of Genius (Macmillan, 2002) and Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon, 2003).
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Patricia Fara: Sympathetic Attractions
In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experience …
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Patricia Fara: An Entertainment for Angels (Icon Science)
Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences to marvel at sparkling fountains, flaming …
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Patricia Fara: Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon Science)
When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reporte …
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Greg Grandin & James Hannam: FREE Icon Books eBook Sampler
Icon Books is an independent British publisher which publishes popular and engaging non-fiction for adults. We’re proud to be part of the Independent Alliance in the UK, publishing companies who shar …
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Claudia Opitz-Belakhal & Sophie Ruppel: Wissen schaffen
Die Beiträge im vorliegenden Heft knüpfen einerseits an die lange Tradition feministischer Wissenschaftsgeschichte und -kritik an und versuchen andererseits, neue wissens- und wissenschaftsgeschichtl …
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Patricia Fara: Science
Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science’s past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practica …
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Patricia Fara: Pandora’s Breeches
‘Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.’ Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scie …
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Patricia Fara: Lab of One’s Own
2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One’s Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold …
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Patricia Fara: Lab of One’s Own
2018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One’s Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold …
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€11.55
Patricia Fara: Life after Gravity
The story of Isaac Newton’s decades in London – as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London’s Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrat …
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Patricia Fara: Erasmus Darwin
Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet …
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Patricia Fara: Erasmus Darwin
Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, physician, Lunar inventor and popular poet …
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Patricia Fara: Life after Gravity
The story of Isaac Newton’s decades in London – as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London’s Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrat …
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€28.41
Leo Ball & Patricia Fara: Timelines of Science
How science changed the world one discovery at a time. Timelines of Science takes you on an astonishing journey back through the ages, showing how dedication, disasters, and eureka moments have broug …
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