rethinking the republic of letters in the seventeenth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pal, Carol
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijke beroepen, netwerken, filosofie, leraren, wiskunde, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Ierland, Duitsland, Frankrijk, Nederland, 17e eeuw
- Description
- This book tells the story of a transnational network of female scholars - Anna Maria van Schurman, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, Dorothy Moore, Bathsua Makin and Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh - who were active members of the seventeenth-century republic of letters. These scholars were philosophers, schoolteachers, reformers and mathematicians, from England, Ireland, Germany, France and The Netherlands.