A lovely piece and how nice to be reminded that Mary Somerville was, in a way, the first scientist - and that as a mocking term became respectable, women scientists were edged out. I reviewed Susannah Gibson's The Spirit of Inquiry for the TLS and she was good on this too.
A lovely piece and how nice to be reminded that Mary Somerville was, in a way, the first scientist - and that as a mocking term became respectable, women scientists were edged out. I reviewed Susannah Gibson's The Spirit of Inquiry for the TLS and she was good on this too.
Thank you so much! Susannah Gibson looks like a great recommendation, too – looking forward to having a gander at that.
Great read, thanks for sharing, Paul!
Thanks Julie, so happy to hear from a fellow historian on Substack!
Love this, at last someone has answered the age old question: “what came first, science or the scientist”?
I’m now off to find a scientist so I can tell them their job is joke...