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© August 2005
revised 26 June 2008

for the future:
she-philosopher.com IN BRIEF topics

Planned IN BRIEF topic essays cover a range of subjects relating to the new science: early-modern optics and optical technologies, mapping, magic & witchcraft, attempts at masculinizing science, the 17th-century woman question, sex and sexuality, race and identity in colonial Virginia, early satires of science, popular science genres, the science of rhetoric & the rhetoric of science, the scientist as social individual, and women’s domestic scientific practice.

• Almanacs
  
• Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes
  
• Beryl
  
• the Bononian Stone
  
• Bulwer’s Art of Manual Rhetoric
  
• Burning-Glass
  
• Cochineal
  
• the Collective Intellectual
  
• Color Controversies
  
• Coterie Publication
  
• Critical Pluralism
  
• Cultural Biology
  
• “devillish Witchcraft”
  
• Dialling
  
• Diffraction, Reflection & Refraction
  
• Early-Modern Cosmetology
  
• Early-Modern Women of Science
  
• “the Female Slavery”
  
• The Five Sexes
  
• the Gay She-Philosopher
  
• He-Philosophy, or, a science re-gendered
  
• “Indian pictures made of feathers”
  
• Magic Lantern
  
• Motism
  
• “Natural Witchcraft” (aka “Natural Magick”)
  
• Ovidian metamorphosis
  
• “Philosophies of the Kitchen”
  
• the Psychology of Mapping
  
• Red, White, and Black: Origins and Issues of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
  
• The Renaissance Mystery of Janus (and other model hermaphrodites)
  
• Scotoscope
  
• Sine law of refraction
  
• Sociable science
  
• Speed of light controversies
  
• Universal language schemes
  
• the Virginia Company
  
• Wave theory of light
  
• “Wits and Railleurs”: Early Satirists & Critics of Science
  
  
  
  

for the future:
she-philosopher.com IN BRIEF biographies

Planned IN BRIEF biographical essays include:

• Argall, Samuel
  
• Diepenbeeck (aka Diepenbeke, Diepenbeck, Diepenbek), Abraham van
  
• Drebbel, Cornelis
  
• Dunton, John
  
• Ferrar, Virginia
  
• Hariot (aka Harriot, Herriot), Thomas
  
• Waller, Richard
  
• Wood, Robert
  
  
  

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