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Description - Science For A Polite Society: Gender, Culture, And The Demonstration Of Enlightenment by Geoffrey V. Sutton

Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to this story, and its protagonists are more likely to be women than men, dilettante aristocrats than highly educated natural philosophers. The setting i

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