Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War

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UPC:
9780393317244
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
9/17/1997
Author:
Margaret Wertheim
Language:
english

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A spirited look at the relationship between physics and religionand 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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