Contents

• Introduction /Judith P. Zinsser
• |gSECTION I. WOMEN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS
• Queen Christina’s metamorphosis - her alchemical world soul and fictional gender transformation /Susanna Åkerman
• Margaret Cavendish and the microscope as play /Hilda L. Smith
• The many representations of the Marquise Du Chatêlet /Judith P. Zinsser
• |gSECTION II. SHIFTING LANGUAGE, SHIFTING ROLES
• The gender of nature and the nature of gender in early modern natural philosophy /Margaret J. Osler
• Neither natural philosophy, nor science, nor literature - gender, writing, and the pursuit of nature in Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes habités /J.B. Shank
• Minerva and Venus - Algarotti’s Newton’s philosophy for the ladies /Franco Arato
• |gSECTION III. WOMEN, MEN, AND THE NEW SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT
• Women and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - different social practices, different textualities, and different kinds of science /Lynette Hunter
• Joanna Stephens’s medicine and the experimental philosophy / Stephen Clucas
• The invisible economy of science - a new approach to the history of gender and astronomy at the eighteenth-century Berlin Academy of Sciences /Monika Mommertz
• Princess Ekaterina Romanova Dashkova and women’s issues in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /Grigory A. Tishkin