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Margaret Wertheim (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate (6 Mar 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857025830
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857025835
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 605,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Why have men dominated science from the Ancient Greeks to the present day? In this searing work of revisionist feminist history, Margaret Wertheim finds the answer where God and physics meet.

In this fascinating synthesis of science, religion and gender politics Wertheim demonstrates that, from its inception, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity and continues to be so today. She puts forward the startling hypothesis that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise. Physics, she reveals, is a science based on a conception of God as a divine mathematical creator. And in line with Christian institutions it has historically been closed to women.

’A rare and welcome mix in science writing, combining impressively detailed historical knowledge with delightful readability and fuelling it all with that rarest of ingredients in this genre, a deeply felt moral and feminist passion. On Wertheim’s guided and immensely accessible tour through the centuries-long development of physics, we learn how science, far from displacing the all-male priesthood, emulated it – and consequently how the physics lab became another Vatican with a no-girls-allowed sign on its door.’ Susan Faludi, author of Backlash

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Margaret Wertheim is an Australian science writer with a BSc in physics and BA in mathematics and computing. She has written widely about science and technology for Australian magazines, television and radio. Her TV work includes the international award-winning Catalyst, which she wrote and directed. She has written for Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Lingua Franca, Zygon and OMNI.

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I read this book a few years ago after having read "Sophie's World" and think that it does for physics what that did for philosophy. You don't need to be a feminist to be impressed by the thesis outlined, you will be impressed at the detail on the development of the Western world view as it has been shaped by the 'Natural Historians/Physicists'. A lot of the half-truths of the argument between Science and Religion are re-examined and shown to be often less than even half true. A lot of the characters who were just names to me turned into characters after reading and a host of women who hadn't even been names were introduced. A book that anyone interested in the history of ideas will read and re-read.
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This book is a great read. It describes well the scientific discovaries beginning with Pythagoras and gives an excellent account of the historical implications. It also discusses what connection there is between religion and science and how this can help explain why so few woman are actively involved (or known to be) in the exact sciences.
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Whether approached out of an interest in cosmology, mathematics, gender politics or Christian apologetics Wertheim's masterful (can I use that word?) treatment tracing the relationship between theology and mathematics will not disappoint.

The enthusiasm of the text only enhances the weight of scholarship represented by this book. Unless one is the ultimate "renaissance person" the reader is bound to find new angles, a lot of information and a few surprises in what Wertheim has woven together.

Reframing some pivotal moments in intellectual history and recontextualizing some of the great cosmological questions of today Wertheim opens up a whole world of mind-changing implications for the thoughtful reader. If you read Pythagoras' Trousers with that end in mind then I am confident you will not be disappointed.

Paul Wallis: author 'BE THOU MY BREASTPLATE - 40 days of giving your life to God the Celtic way.' "This serene, superb...book is...a rich gift to the Church." (Phyllis Tickle)
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