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Margaret Wertheim
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Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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320 |
| Date: |
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1997-09-17 |
| ISBN: |
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0393317242 |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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0.75 pounds |
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0.09 x 0.55 x 0.83 inches |
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2 Saturnine (USA: RI), Katie (USA: WA) |
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2 Alma (USA: MA), Allen Klinger (USA: CA) |
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Product Description
A spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion—and the implications for both sexes. Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity; she argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise.
Pythagoras' Trousers is a highly original history of one of science's most powerful disciplines. It is also a passionate argument for the need to involve both women and men in the process of shaping the technologies from the next generation of physicists.
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