Dr Susannah Gibson is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge on the history of the life sciences of the eighteenth century, a master’s degree in the history of nineteenth-century science, and a bachelor’s degree in experimental physics.
Books in order of publication:
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?: How eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order – 2015
The Spirit of Inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science – 2019
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement – 2024
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