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Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society [PDF]

Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2014
It is often claimed that Margaret Cavendish was an anti-experimentalist who was deeply hostile to the activities of the early Royal Society—particularly in relation to Robert Hooke's experiments with microscopes. Some scholars have argued that her views were odd or even childish, while others have claimed that they were shaped by her gender-based ...
Wilkins E.
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Mycobacterial metabolic model development for drug target identification. [PDF]

GigaByte, 2023
Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate, and three related mycobacteria are sources of widespread infections in humans. According to the World Health Organization, Mycobacterium leprae, which causes leprosy, is still endemic ...
Bannerman BP, Oarga A, Júlvez J.
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Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil

Religions, 2018
This paper argues that, although Margaret Cavendish’s main philosophical contributions are not in philosophy of religion, she makes a case for a defense of God, in spite of the worst sorts of harms being present in the world.
Jill Gräper Hernández
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Tejer la Nueva Ciencia con los materiales de la imaginación: Margaret Cavendish, poesía y experimentación

Acta Poética, 2023
Pese a los prejuicios en contra de su participación en la vida intelectual, varias mujeres del siglo XVII intervinieron activamente en las discusiones en torno a la “Nueva Ciencia”.
Gabriela Villanueva Noriega
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Politique et imagination féminine dans Natures Pictures de Margaret Cavendish (1656)

Etudes Epistémè, 2006
In 1656, Margaret Cavendish publishes a puzzling book entitled Natures Pictures drawn by Fancies Pencils to the Life, which gathers in eleven books numerous prefaces, poetry in verse and prose, fables as well as novellas, romances and lastly her own ...
Claire Boulard-Jouslin
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Review of The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish by Deborah Boyle

Locke Studies, 2018
A review of Deborah Boyle's recent book The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017).
David Cunning
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Vitalistic Approaches to Life in Early Modern England

Teorie vědy, 2015
Vitalistic Approaches to Life in Early Modern England Abstract: Vitalism has been given different definitions and diverse figures have been labelled as vitalists throughout the history of ideas.
Veronika Szanto
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Review of Deborah Boyle on Margaret Cavendish

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2020
A review of Deborah Boyle's book The Well-Ordered Universe (2018), by Dustin D. Stewart.
Dustin Stewart
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Rewrite history, make history. Woman as subject in Christine de Pizan and Margaret Cavendish

Scienza & Politica, 2016
In The City of Ladies and Bell in Campo, Christine de Pizan and Margaret Cavendish imagine women’s participation to war as a metaphor of the sexual conflict that they must fight in order to conquer their visibility in history.
Paola Rudan
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"Many a good, old honest woman hath been condemned innocently": Cavendish and Glanvill on witchcraft [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
Margaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill disagreed over the reality of witchcraft. In her assessment of the exchange between the two, Jacqueline Broad finds that Cavendish was the "voice of scientific reason", not only because of her disbelief in ...
Vuletić Miloš
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