When talking about women and science, the immediate reaction is to indicate the absence of women in the development of this activity throughout history.
However, it is curious that this "fact" is fencing by those outdated conception of history of science and without that, who say such a thing, have made a serious examination of the history of science.
If they had, not just talk, "ironically" also of Madame de Châtelet , omitting, among other things, that his translation of the Principia Mathematica allowed the continent's accession to the Newtonian.
A cursory glance would have allowed them to discover Aglaonike and Hypatia in ancient times, to Hildegard of Bingen in the Middle Ages. Italian
At Maria Ardinghelli , Tarquinia Molz, Cristina Rocatti, Elena Cornaro Piscopia , Maria Gaetana Agnesi and Laura Bassi .
A las anglosajonas Aphra Behn , Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace , Mary Orr Evershed , Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming , Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins , Christine Ladd‑Franklin , Henrietta Swan Leavitt , Annie Russell Maunder , Charlotte Angas Scott , Mary Somerville , Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, Caroline Herschel and Maria Mitchell . To the Germans
Maria Cunitz , Elisabetha Koopman Hevelius , Mary and Christine Kirch . French
At Jeanne Dume, Sophie Germain, Nicole Lepaute . O
other recent scientific and Maria Goeppter Mayer , Sonya Kovalevsky Vasilyevna , Lise Meitner and Emmy Noether , to name just a few of renown.
But that list also reflects a misconception of the history of science.
Because this is not constituted only by big names, usually male, "as the stories of science to use and which could be quite easily could be added that of women, as in some line historical research.
Scientists live in a time and a country, belong to a society and have beliefs of various kinds (scientific and nonscientific). Are educated in a certain way, working alone or in teams, formulate hypotheses, used instruments, meet (formally and informally). That is, science is not only a body of knowledge certificate promptly made by certain individuals, but much more.
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• In this article, the CSIC conducted a didactic edition which contained the most relevant profile Women in the History of Science (download pdf)
• Have the full article at Entretodas . • Sheet
Eulalia Pérez Sedeño in the CSIC.
• The Institute of Philosophy website may find their research work and informative of Eulalia Pérez Sedeño .
• Astronomers who made history (podcast) by Eulalia Pérez Sedeño and raised in the program "On the Shoulders of Giants' on Radio5.
The original article I can find reproduced in full in numerous places, I will not find are the links that enrich the text and open doors. That is, if anything, our merits.
We thought a nice tribute in the International Women's Day.
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