Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on the text
- Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- To Her Grace the Duchess of Newcastle
- To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle
- To the Most Famous University of Cambridge
- The Preface to the Ensuing Treatise
- To the Reader
- An Argumental Discourse
- The Table of All the Principal Subjects
- Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- Further Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- Observations upon the Opinions of Some Ancient Philosophers
- Glossary
- Index
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Observations upon the Opinions of Some Ancient Philosophers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on the text
- Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- To Her Grace the Duchess of Newcastle
- To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle
- To the Most Famous University of Cambridge
- The Preface to the Ensuing Treatise
- To the Reader
- An Argumental Discourse
- The Table of All the Principal Subjects
- Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- Further Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- Observations upon the Opinions of Some Ancient Philosophers
- Glossary
- Index
- Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Summary
Although the indisposition of my body did in a manner dissuade me from studying and writing any more; yet the great desire I had to know the opinions of the ancient philosophers, and whether any came near my own, overcame me so much, that even to the prejudice of my own health, I gave myself to the perusing of the works of that learned author Mr. Stanley, wherein he describes the lives and opinions of the ancient philosophers; in which I found so much difference betwixt their conceptions and my own, in natural philosophy, that were it allowable or usual for our sex, I might set up a sect or school for myself, without any prejudice to them: But I, being a woman, do fear they would soon cast me out of their schools; for, though the muses, graces and sciences are all of the female gender, yet they were more esteemed in former ages, than they are now; nay, could it be done handsomely, they would now turn them all from females into males: So great is grown the self-conceit of the masculine, and the disregard of the female sex.
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- Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy , pp. 249 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001