her ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. She’s an odd addition to my collection of scientists, as a self-taught, die-hard royalist aristocrat & firm anti-empiricist, but her publications on gender, power, manners, scientific method, & philosophy cannot be ignored. She wrote 6 books on 🧵2/n

Natural Philosophy & was 1st woman admitted to a meeting of the Royal Society, & thus a part of the contemporary world of science. Plus this delightfully eccentric woman combined her natural philosophy with sci-fi, & wrote herself into the story: A young woman kidnapped by pirates escapes to the 🧵3