Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Pandora/Eve/Minerva

Prologue

1. Women/Science

2. Lady Philosophy/Francis Bacon

In the Shadows of Giants

3. Elisabeth of Bohemia/René Descartes

4. Anne Conway/Gottfried Leibniz

5. Émilie du Châtelet/Isaac Newton

Domestic Science

6. Jane Dee/John Dee

7. Elisabetha Hevelius/Johannes Hevelius

8. Caroline Herschel/William Herschel

9. Marie Paulze Lavoisier/Antoine Lavoisier

Under Science’s Banner

10. Priscilla Wakefield/Carl Linnaeus

11. Mary Shelley/Victor Frankenstein

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography