Patricia Fara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Patricia Fara was a college lecturer in the history of science at Clare College,Cambridge. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and did her PhD at the University of London. She is a former Fellow of Darwin College and is an Emerita Fellow of Clare College where she was previously Director of Studies in the History and Philosophy and Science. Fara was also a College Teaching Officer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From 2016 to 2018 Fara was President of the British Society for the History of Science. In 2016 she became President of the Antiquarian Horological Society. Fara is author of numerous popular books on the history of science and has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's science and history discussion series, In Our Time.
Patricia Fara's Published Works
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Published Works
- Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009) (79)
- Mesmerized: Powers of mind in Victorian Britain (1999) (74)
- Newton: The Making of Genius (1984) (71)
- Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (2003) (40)
- Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science (2001) (38)
- Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (2011) (33)
- Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England (1996) (28)
- Leibniz's women. (2004) (20)
- A microscopic reality tale (2009) (18)
- Newton shows the light: a commentary on Newton (1672) ‘A letter … containing his new theory about light and colours…’ (2015) (16)
- Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture (2007) (14)
- Women in science: Weird sisters? (2013) (13)
- Isaac Newton lived here: sites of memory and scientific heritage (2000) (13)
- ‘A treasure of hidden vertues’: the attraction of magnetic marketing (1995) (12)
- The search for Enlightenment (2003) (12)
- An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (2002) (12)
- Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity (2012) (12)
- Catch a falling apple: Isaac Newton and myths of genius. (1999) (11)
- American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light (2020) (10)
- An Atttractive Therapy: Animal Magnetism in Eighteenth-Century England (1995) (10)
- Northern possession: laying claim to the aurora borealis (1996) (9)
- Women, science and suffrage in World War I (2015) (8)
- Lord Derwentwater's Lights: Prediction and the Aurora Polaris (1996) (8)
- The Royal Society's portrait of Joseph Banks (1997) (8)
- Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins, Adrian Desmond, James Moore. Allen Lane, London (2009), xxi + 485 pages, £25 hardback; (2009) (8)
- Myth 6. That the Apple Fell and Newton Invented the Law of Gravity, Thus Removing God from the Cosmos (2015) (8)
- THE MELANCHOLY OF ANATOMY (1975) (7)
- :Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 16501820 (2002) (7)
- Heavenly Bodies: Newtonianism, Natural Theology and the Plurality of Worlds Debate in the Eighteenth Century (2004) (7)
- Isaac Newton and Augustan Anglo-Latin poetry (2004) (7)
- Londa Schiebinger. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2006) (6)
- Sisters in Science (2004) (6)
- An attractive therapy: animal magnetism in eighteenth-century England. (1995) (5)
- London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke/'A More Beautiful City': Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire (Book) (2004) (5)
- Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science (2007) (4)
- Review of: Barnett, Jo Ellen: Time's pendulum : the quest to capture time, from sundials to atomic clocks. New York, NY: Plenum Trade 1998 (1999) (4)
- Versions of vesalius. (2011) (4)
- Why Mark Erickson should read different histories of science (2010) (4)
- Hidden depths: Halley, hell and other people (2007) (4)
- Erratum to: “Carl Linnaeus: pictures and propaganda” [Endeavour 27(1) 14–15] (2003) (4)
- Elizabeth Tollet: A New Newtonian Woman (2002) (3)
- Alessandro Volta and the politics of pictures. (2009) (3)
- The past as a work in progress (2017) (3)
- A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (2017) (3)
- Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400–1800, Pamela H. Smith, Benjamin Schmidt (Eds.). Chicago University Press, Chicago (2008), xi + 360 pages, US$28 paperback (2009) (3)
- Face Values: How Portraits Win Friends and Influence People (2003) (3)
- Niccolò Guicciardini Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 (2000) (3)
- Mary Somerville: a scientist and her ship. (2008) (3)
- Minsoo Kang. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination. (2012) (3)
- Selling the silver: country house libraries and the history of science. (2005) (2)
- Portraying Caroline Herschel. (2002) (2)
- Caricatures of Katterfelto (2002) (2)
- :The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance (2006) (2)
- Political Electricity (2007) (2)
- Michael Faraday, media man. (2006) (2)
- Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (review) (2006) (2)
- Joseph Priestley: Docter Phlogiston or Reverend Oxygen? (2010) (2)
- Women or just good scientists? (2006) (2)
- William Harvey, an Aristotelian anatomist. (2007) (2)
- Two portraits of Edmond Halley. (2004) (2)
- Alexander von Humboldt: a revolutionary explorer. (2008) (2)
- Assimilating shocks to the system (1998) (1)
- The Curies in colour (2011) (1)
- Born in 1809: Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs. (2009) (1)
- Images of Newton. (2000) (1)
- David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. London: Profile Books, 2007. Pp. xviii+270. ISBN 1-86197-296-2. £18.99 (hardback). (2007) (1)
- Edmond Halley's last portrait (2006) (1)
- Carl Linnaeus: pictures and propaganda. (2003) (1)
- Spying for the enlightenment. (2011) (1)
- Naturalists at Sea: scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin (2014) (1)
- Tycho Brahe: emperor of Hven and the heavens. (2007) (1)
- Freudian snaps. (2006) (1)
- Pluralism versus Periodization. (2016) (1)
- Benjamin West's portrait of Joseph Banks. (2000) (1)
- Group portraits IV – the Seventh Solvay Conference (2001) (1)
- Climbing Mount Schiehallion (2006) (1)
- Educating Mary: Women and Scientific Literature in the Early Nineteenth Century (2016) (1)
- The first President of the Royal Society. (2003) (1)
- Looking at J.B.S. Haldane. (2004) (1)
- Pictures of Charles Darwin. (2000) (1)
- <italic>The History of Celestial Navigation: Rise of the Royal Observatory and Nautical Almanacs</italic>, edited by P. Kenneth Seidelmann and Catherine Y. Hohenkerk. (2020) (0)
- In from the cold (2004) (0)
- CHAPTER SEVEN. A Powerful Language: Images of Nature and the Nature of Science (1996) (0)
- Baron Kelvin of Largs: an economical engineer. (2007) (0)
- The changing world (1996) (0)
- Faces of genius : images of Newton in eighteenth-century England (2000) (0)
- Pictures of Dorothy Hodgkin. (2003) (0)
- Review of: Winter, Alison: Mesmerized : powers of mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press 1998 (1999) (0)
- Gregory Lynall, Swift and Science: The Satire, Politics and Theology of Natural Knowledge, 1690–1730. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. ix+209. ISBN 978-0-230-34364-1. £50.00 (hardback). (2013) (0)
- Representing revolution: icons of industrialization. (2006) (0)
- Battling for life: the wartime work of Janet Vaughan (2019) (0)
- Book Review: "Science and the Visual Image in the Enlightenment" Editor by W. R. Shea (2001) (0)
- Modest heroines of time and space (2008) (0)
- Portraits of Benjamin Franklin (2002) (0)
- Newton, Industry, and Empire (2005) (0)
- Ada Lovelace: the making of a computer scientist (2019) (0)
- Book Review (2005) (0)
- Minerva Scientifica: the owl that flies at dawn - women scientists, women composers (2017) (0)
- Ben Marsh, Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 487. ISBN 978-1-1084-1828-7. £29.99 (hardback). (2020) (0)
- Group portraits – the Oxford University Museum (2001) (0)
- ROBERT POOLE, Time's Alteration: Calendar Reform in Early Modern England. London: UCL Press, 1998. Pp. xix+243. ISBN 1-85728-622-7. £45.00, $75.00. (1999) (0)
- Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 223. ISBN 978-0-2262-3584-4. £24.50, $35.00 (hardback). (2016) (0)
- Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books ed. by Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasigoglu and Benjamin Wardhaugh (review) (2021) (0)
- Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World Edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan (2006) (0)
- Physics rules (2005) (0)
- ALESSANDRO TOSI, Portraits of Men and Ideas: Images of Science from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century. Pisa: Edizioni Plus, 2007. 183 pp., ISBN 978-88-8492-511-4. (2008) (0)
- APPENDIX. Magnetic Longitude Schemes (1996) (0)
- Mary Wortley Montagu's struggle for health and equality Jo Willett (2021) (0)
- Questions of inheritance: Erasmus and Charles Darwin (2016) (0)
- Fit for a King? The George III Gallery at the Science Museum (1995) (0)
- CHAPTER SIX God's Mysterious Creation: The Divine Attraction of Natural Knowledge (1996) (0)
- Rulers of the zodiac. (2012) (0)
- A Different Account of Difference (2016) (0)
- Summer books (2013) (0)
- Book Review: The scientific correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765–1820 (2008) (0)
- Isabel Emslie Hutton: a doctor at war (2018) (0)
- Faidra Papanelopoulu, Agustí Nieto-Galan and Enrique Perdiguero (eds.), Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1820–2000 . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xviii+284. ISBN 978-7546-6269-3. £60.00 (hardback). (2010) (0)
- Ben Russell, James Watt: Making the World Anew . London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Pp. 280. ISBN 978-1-78023-375-8. £17.95 (hardback). (2015) (0)
- Object Lessons (2016) (0)
- A woman of gravity (2016) (0)
- Looking for Aristotle. (2008) (0)
- Joseph Banks: Pacific pictures (2003) (0)
- Celina Fox, The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+576. ISBN 978-0-300-16042-0. £40.00 (hardback). (2010) (0)
- Framing the Evidence (2001) (0)
- Mathematical figures. (2009) (0)
- John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods . London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xxi + 564. ISBN 0-415-03712-3. £75.00. (1994) (0)
- An epic story of the long nineteenth century (2010) (0)
- MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. New York Oxford: New York Public Library/Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi+224 pp., ill., ISBN 0-19-517734-7. (2005) (0)
- William Walker's portrait of 'Men of Science'. (2001) (0)
- Book Review (2005) (0)
- Book Review:Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time--From Sundials to Atomic Clocks Jo Ellen Barnett (1999) (0)
- Tita Chico, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 242. ISBN 978-1-5036-0544-2. $60.00 (hardcover). (2019) (0)
- FIGURES AND TABLES (1996) (0)
- C. U. M. SMITH and ROBERT ARNOTT (eds.), The Genius of Erasmus Darwin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvii+416. ISBN 0-7546-3671-2. £60.00 (hardback). (2007) (0)
- Women in science: A temporary liberation (2014) (0)
- Of moas and men: Richard Owen's dinosaur dinner. (2010) (0)
- Vladimir Janković.Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650–1820. xiv + 272 pp., frontis., illus., tables, app., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. $55 (cloth); $20 (paper). (2002) (0)
- A Different Account of Difference (2016) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- What Is Science? A Historian’s Perplexities (2015) (0)
- David Park.The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance. xi + 325 pp., illus., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. $29.95 (cloth). (2006) (0)
- Ann B. Shteir;, Bernard Lightman (Editors).Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture. (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture.) xxx + 385 pp., figs., index. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2006. $34.95 (paper). (2007) (0)
- KING-HELE, Desmond. Erasmus Darwin and evolution. Stuart Harris: Sheffield, 2014. Pp vii, 212; illustrated. Price £ 8.00 (hardback). ISBN 97809542145187. (2015) (0)
- Engineering fame: Isambard Kingdom Brunel. (2006) (0)
- Review of: Poole, Robert: Time's alteration : calendar reform in early modern England. London: UCL Press 1998 (1999) (0)
- Museums and Memory, edited by Susan A. Crane (2001) (0)
- P.M. Harman, The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+393. ISBN 978-0-300-15197-8. £45.00 (hardback). (2011) (0)
- The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment. By J. B. Shank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+571. $55.00. (2010) (0)
- Cartesian visions. (2008) (0)
- The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe - by Brian W. Ogilvie (2007) (0)
- Monuments to Einstein. (2005) (0)
- Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688–1832 ed. by Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto (review) (2021) (0)
- CHAPTER FIVE. Measuring Power: Patterns in Experimental Natural Philosophy (1996) (0)
- Lunar philosophers. (2007) (0)
- William E. Burns.An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics, and Providence in England, 1657–1727. x+228 pp., bibl., index. Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. $64.95. (2003) (0)
- William J. Turkel.Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery. xi + 287 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. $34.95 (cloth). (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. "A Treasure of Hidden Vertues": Marketing Natural Philosophy (1996) (0)
- Lynda Walsh.Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy. x + 264 pp., illus., figs., notes, index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. (2016) (0)
- THEOLOGY AND MODERN PHYSICS (2005) (0)
- CHAPTER THREE. The Direction of Invention: Setting a New Course for Compasses (1996) (0)
- Zachary Dorner, Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN: 978-0-2267-0680-1. $50.00 (hardback). (2021) (0)
- The attraction of national interest: navigational compasses as cultural artefacts (2008) (0)
- Instruments of Attraction. (1996) (0)
- Review of: Morus, Iwan Rhys: Frankenstein's children : electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press 1998 (1998) (0)
- Scientific coats of arms. (2005) (0)
- CHAPTER ONE. Mapping Enlightenment England: Practitioners and Philosophers (1996) (0)
- Fighting on Three Fronts: British Scientific Women in Europe during World War One (2018) (0)
- Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture (review) (2007) (0)
- Book Review (2000) (0)
- Anunciant Albert Einstein (2005) (0)
- MISS LEAVITT'S STARS (2006) (0)
- Was Newton a Newtonian? (2003) (0)
- Looking Through the Paint (2010) (0)
- Claiming Copernicus. (2005) (0)
- Isaac Newton and the left eye of history (2013) (0)
- A Peculiar Archaeology: Searching for Mr. Giffen’s Behaviour (2011) (0)
- Thomas Clarkson: A curious collector. (2010) (0)
- Images of Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier (2000) (0)
- Craig Ashley Hanson.The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism. xvii + 316 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. $50 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Version of events (2012) (0)
- Ferreiro, Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped the World . New York: Basic Books, 2011. Pp. xix + 353. ISBN 978-0-465-01723-2. $28.00 (hardback). (2012) (0)
- Humphry Davy's lamp of genius. (2009) (0)
- Author’s response (1997) (0)
- A magnetic entrepreneur : Gowin Knight and the promotion of science in the 18th century (1999) (0)
- Group portraits--the Dilettanti Society. (2001) (0)
- Northern Possession: Laying Claim to the (2016) (0)
- From Euclid to Einstein (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER FOUR. An Attractive Empire: Mapping Terrestrial Magnetism (1996) (0)
- Isaac Newton and the left eye of history (2013) (0)
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