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Books on Science Herstory
From Sorceress to Scientist
How did women of ancient Greece predict eclipses?
Why did women dominate early alchemy?
What woman scientist was the mistress of Voltaire?
Who were the Harvard computers?
Which family of scientists won 5 Nobel Prizes?
If you are stumped by these questions, then you need a copy of From Sorceress
to Scientist. It's a one of a kind collection of biographies of women
physical scientists, beginning in the prehistoric era up to the twentieth
century. Each biography is accompanied by a lab, a puzzle, or a demonstration.
There are over 40 illustrations taken from the world's museums and libraries.
All these materials are designed to be xeroxed and used in the secondary
school classroom.
Women scientists featured:
Agloanike / Hypatia / Hildegard of Bingen / Emily du Chatelet / Mary
Somerville / Maria Kirch / Inge Lehmann / Antonia Maury / Hertha Ayrton
/ Rosalind Franklin / Dorothy Hodgkin / Lise Meitner / Maria Mitchell /
Mary the Jewess / Margaret Cavendish / Marie Ann Lavoisier / Mary Anning
/ Caroline Herschel / Henrietta Leavitt / Williamina Fleming / Chien Shiung
Wu / Kathleen Lonsdale / Evelyn Granville / Linda Morabito
ISBN 1-880211-01-7 / $19.99 / 100 pages / spiral bound / Copyright 1990
From Priestess to Physician
Who was the Army surgeon dubbed "The Queen of the Ridiculous?"
What over-the-counter drug invented by Lydia Pinkham made millions?
Why did John Winthrop attack Puritan Anne Hutchinson as a midwife?
Where did Louis Leakey send his "ape girls" to revamp primate
science?
When did women start using aspirin as an effective pain killer?
The second in the series of black line masters, this collection of biographies
focuses on women in biology and medicine. Accompanying each selection is a lab,
a demo, or a puzzle. Scientists are featured from around the world, from
pre-history to the present. There are over 50 historically accurate illustrations,
many from museum collections. Several fields of biology and health are represented:
genetics, nutrition, botany, entomology, health, sex education, ornithology,
primatology, bio-statistics, virology, and ecology. Secondary level.
Women scientists featured:
Aspasia / Olympias / Agnodike / Hildegard of Bingen / Trota of Salerno
/ Jaqueline Felicie / Anne Hutchinson / Maria Merian / Birute Galdikas /
Nettie Stevens / Bernadine Healy / Ellen Swallow Richards / Florence Merriam
Bailey / Lydia Pinkham / Mary Walker / Rita Levi-Montalcini / Sharon Matola
/ Jocelyn Elders / Nafis Sadik /
ISBN 1-880211-04-1 / $19.99 / 110 pages / spiral bound / Copyright 1996
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