Being a specialist book reviewer, I almost always have a solid understanding of what any given book I sit down to read for review is about, and what I can reasonably expect from it. “Almost always,” that is.
Being a specialist book reviewer, I almost always have a solid understanding of what any given book I sit down to read for review is about, and what I can reasonably expect from it. “Almost always,” that is.
In recent years, the efforts to recognize and develop the work of women in the sciences have brought to the fore a number of important scientists who a mere fifty years ago may have been left largely unknown, whose work may have been unrecognized or ascribed to another, or whose talents may have been discouraged – or even inhibited – from being developed. And with this, a number of other women whose accomplishments in the past have begun to receive their justly deserved and long overdue recognition.
For as long as human history has been recorded, and certainly well before that as well, we’ve been afflicted by disease; some minor, some fatal, and up until relatively recently – the past few centuries, for the most part – all largely mysterious in regard to their causes. If the diseases that afflict humans are […]
Toward the end of 1643, or perhaps at the beginning of 1644, a then somewhat famous but now little remembered painter committed to canvas the image of a young man and his tutor – neither of wide notoriety to history outside of their own respective families. The painting itself, a respectable rendering to be sure, subsequently hung largely neglected for centuries.