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oursinBehold me irate at this article:
The scientist that history forgot:
Unknown to whom, bozo? I knew about Emilie du Chatelet when I was but a sixth former (back in the Upper Palaeolithic), thank you very much. And way to go when 'recovering' a forgotten woman from history: i.e. ignoring the substantial scholarship by women on women in science, in which E du C tends to get name-checked quite often, and then dissing on Nancy Mitford. Yeah, you're a real white knight, rescuing the forgotten and neglected ladeez, aren't you, Mr Bodanis? Who's next - Ada Lovelace?
ETA: 42000+ hits on Google doesn't strike me as exactly poor sad forgotten neglected Cinderella of science.
The scientist that history forgot:
David Bodanis was intrigued when he found a reference to an unknown 18th-century Frenchwoman - and astonished by what he went on to learn about her.
Unknown to whom, bozo? I knew about Emilie du Chatelet when I was but a sixth former (back in the Upper Palaeolithic), thank you very much. And way to go when 'recovering' a forgotten woman from history: i.e. ignoring the substantial scholarship by women on women in science, in which E du C tends to get name-checked quite often, and then dissing on Nancy Mitford. Yeah, you're a real white knight, rescuing the forgotten and neglected ladeez, aren't you, Mr Bodanis? Who's next - Ada Lovelace?
ETA: 42000+ hits on Google doesn't strike me as exactly poor sad forgotten neglected Cinderella of science.
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Date: 2006-05-15 07:52 pm (UTC)Bodanis is just so annoying: one can quite (and happily) imagine N Mitford having him on toast for breakfast. Possibly (because I am sadistic like that) after an escalating sequence of 'teases' (are you shrieking yet?!)
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Date: 2006-05-15 09:30 pm (UTC)The only annoying erasure method missing in Bodanis' article is the invocation of the Distant Mythical Ancestress. Something like, "Not since Hypatia has a woman so brilliant..."