Patricia Fara

I’m an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

I've got a degree in physics, but my real passion is the history of science, and I love writing books because I want to show everybody that the history of science is the history of absolutely everything.

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Publications

Fara, P. (2018). A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford University Press.
Fara, P. (2017). Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment. Pimlico.
Fara, P. (2017). Case Study: Hertha Ayrton. In P. Wynarczyk, & M. Ranga (Eds.), Technology, Commercialization and Gender (pp. 235–244). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Fara, P. (2015). Newton shows the light: a commentary on Newton (1672) ‘A letter … containing his new theory about light and colours…’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 373(2039).
Fara, P. (2010). Science: A Four Thousand Year History. Oxford University Press.
Fara, P. (2004). Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. Columbia University Press.

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Life After Gravity: Isaac Newton’s London Career

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

Pandora's Breeches

Sympathetic Attractions

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