Catching nature in the act : Réaumur and the practice of natural history in the eighteenth century / Mary Terrall.

Nature's body : gender in the making of modern science / Londa Schiebinger.

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Natural history - History - 18th century

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Catching nature in the act : Réaumur and the practice of natural history in the eighteenth century / Mary Terrall.

Nature's body : gender in the making of modern science / Londa Schiebinger.