Patricia Fara
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Patricia Fara charts the rise in popularity of the history of science. Published July 27 2010
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Patricia Fara explores the scientific education of Mary Shelley and how a work of early science fiction inspired her best-known novel Frankenstein. Published June 9 2010
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Patricia Fara recounts the moving story of a gifted contemporary of Isaac Newton who came to symbolise the frustrations of generations of female scientists denied the chance to fulfil their talents. Published March 16 2009
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Patricia Fara considers a new title which looks at the attempts to reconcile faith with the emerging conclusions of science in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Published June 22 2005
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Patricia Fara marks two significant Einstein anniversaries and points out some contradictions in the reputation of this great scientific hero. Published March 23 2005
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Patricia Fara studies two books on a noted 17th-century physicist and inventor.
Published May 18 2004
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Patricia Fara calls for a more inclusive, and realistic, history of Science.
Published April 22 2004
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Patricia Fara looks at three volumes which tackle the question of the Enlightenment.
Published October 22 2002
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Patricia Fara investigates how the many paintings, prints and cartoons of Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer and scientific administrator, influenced public attitudes to science in the early 19th century.
Published September 30 1998
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A cabinet of curiosities or a medium for enlightening the general public? Patricia Fara looks at how debate over democratising scientific knowledge crystalised in the development of the newly-formed British Museum. Published July 31 1997
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