Mothers and daughters of invention: 4000 years of women in science -- Counting, from Quipu to Googol -- "Constellations then arise": astronomy in the age of Copernicus -- Around the world with Nellie Bly -- Marking time: clocks and calendars through the centuries -- Isaac Newton's poetry of the rainbow -- Naming the unnamed: the strange saga of Amerigo Vespucci -- Everyday science in Ben Franklin's America -- "Lady of the Lamp": Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing -- Edward Jenner and the gossip of milkmaids -- Anthropology, the science of us -- Geegaws and doohickeys: indispensable inventions and their forgotten inventors.
Summary:
Presents twelve original plays that depict important moments of discovery in science and geography.
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