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Pythagoras' Trousers by Margaret Wertheim (1997, Paperback) 
Pythagoras' Trousers by Margaret Wertheim (1997, Paperback)

 
Pythagoras' Trousers by Margaret Wertheim (1997, Paperback)

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0393317242
ISBN-13: 9780393317244
Product ID: EPID264294
Description: The author offers a social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and into the twentieth century. She shows how the development of physics has been intertwined with the rising power of institutionali...
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Synopsis
The author offers a social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and into the twentieth century. She shows how the development of physics has been intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community, as well as the science itself and the picture of reality it portrays.

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Publication Date:1997-09-01

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Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Publisher's Note
An "immensely accessible tour (which tells) how the physics lab became another Vatican with a no-girls-allowed sign on its door" (Susan Faludi) this spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise.

This book is a spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion - and the implications for both sexes.

Industry Reviews
"Smoothly written and likely to make you rethink some basics"
Philadelphia Inquirer - Carlin Romano

"A carefully researched, educative, intelligent and highly readable account of the rise of physics from its origins in Pythagorean number mysticism through the refolding of this mysticism into modern physics at its birth in the seventeenth century, and its continued presence since."
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