A reexamination of the origins of modern science; discovers a forgotten heritage of women scientists and probes the cultural and historical forces that continue

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After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human speci

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on th