The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
| Source Text(definition of “Source text”) | Gesture(definition of “Intertextual gesture”) | Referenced Work(definition of “Referenced work”) | |||
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| Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) | Text of the Gesture | Gesture Type (The Terminology page on “”) | Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) |
| Adams, Hannah. The History of the Jews. 1812. | “that he did not spare the utmost pains in inquiring into the history of this curious people, and he lived in habits of intimacy and friendship with several of the most learned among them.” | quote | Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. 1790. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “Discourse shall sooner find out Natures Corporeal figurative Motions, then Art shall inform the Senses.” | quote | Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “a Magnet being made red hot in the fire, not onely amits the Magnetical Vigor it had before, but acquires a new one” | quote | Browne, Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. 1658. | Scientific writing | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “If the Polary direction of the Stone should be thought to proceed intrinsecally from the Stone, it were as much as to put a Soul or Intelligence into the Stone, which must turn it about, as Angels are feigned to do Celestial Orbs.” | quote | Browne, Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. 1658. | Scientific writing | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “narrow souls, and not worthy the name of Philosophers, that think any body can be too great, or too vast, as also too little in its natural dimensions, and that Nature is stinted at an atome, and brought to a non- plus of her sub-divisions” | quote | Power, Henry. Experimental Philosophy. 1664. | Scientific writing | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. 1666. | “That the Indulgent Creator, although he gives not to Natural Creatures the power to produce one atome of matter, yet allows them the power to introduce so many forms which Philosophers teach to be nobler then matter, and to work such changes amongst Creatures, that if Adam was now alive, and should surveigh the great variety of mans production, that are to be found in the shops of Artificers, the Laboratories of Chymists, and other well furnished Magazines of Art, he would admire to see what a new world it were.” | quote | Boyle, Robert. The Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy. 1663. | Scientific writing | |
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Souls and Lives, as they know no Degrees, so they know no Parts;” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Causes and Principles of natural Bodies” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Element of Water” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ferment or Leaven” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Causes and Beginnings” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “things, which are produced without life” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Seeds of things, and the Spirits, as the Dispensers thereof, are divided from the Material Cause” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Efficient and Seminal Causes, some are efficiently effecting, and others effectively effecting:” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeus, Ferment” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideas, Blas, Gas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideas, Archeus, Gas, Blas, Ferment” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeus” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “the Spirit of Life; a vital Gas or Light; the Balsam preserving from Corruption; the Vulcan or Smith of Generation; the stirrer up, and inward director of Generation; an Air, a skiey or airy Spirit; cloathing himself presently with a bodily cloathing, in things soulified, walking through all the dens and retiring places of the seed, and transforming the matter according to the perfect act of its own Image, remaining the president and overseer or inward ruler of his bounds even till death; the Principle of Life: the Inn of Life, the onely immediate Witness, Executer, and Instrument of Life; the Prince and Center of Life; the Ruler of the Stern; the Keeper of Life, and promoter of Transmutations; the Porter of the Soul; a Fountainous being; a Flint.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeus” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas is the Vapour into which Water is dissolved by Cold, but yet it is a far more fine and subtil thing then Vapour” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Wild Spirit, or Breath, unknown hitherto, which can neither be constrained by Vessels, nor reduced into a visible body; in some things it is nothing but Water; as for example in Salt, in Fruits, and the like.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas proceeds from the local and alterative motion of the Stars, and is the general beginning of motion, producing heat and cold, and that especially with the changing of the Winds.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas in all sublunary things” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Which Incorporeal Blas of Government acts without a Corporeal Efflux, even as the Moon makes the Sea to swell; but the fleshly generation hath a Blas of its own, and it is twofold, one which existeth by a natural Motion, the other voluntary, which existeth as a mover to it self by an Internal Willing.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas of the Heart” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “the fuel of the Vital Spirit, and consequently of its heat.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ferment” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “A true Principle or Original beginning of things, to wit, a Formal Created being, which is neither a substance, nor an accident, but a Neutral being, framed from the beginning of the World in the places of its own Monarchy, in the manner of Light, Fire, the magnal or sheath of the Air, Forms, &c. that it may prepare, stir up, and go before the Seeds.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Certain formal seminal Lights, mutually piercing each other without the adultery of Union” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “For” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “although at first, that, which is imagined, is nothing, but a meer being of reason, yet it doth not reamin such; for truely the Fancy is a sealifying vertue, and in this respect is called Imaginative, because it forms the Images of Likenesses, or Ideas of things conceived, and doth characterize them in its own Vital Spirit, and therefore that Idea is made a spiritual or seminal powerful being, to perform things of great moment.” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Archeal Ideas, Ideas of Diseases, Sealifying Ideas, Piercing Ideas, Forreign and strange Ideas, Mad Ideas, Irrational and Incorrigible Ideas, Staggering Ideas” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gas, Blas,” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Ideal Entity,” | quote | van Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius. Oriatrike; or, Physick Refined. 1662. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Natural coldness of Water, Air, and Earth” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Blas” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Native Heat is no where in things, except from Light, Life, Motion, and an altering Blas” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Fishes do by the force or vertue of an inbred Seed transchange simple water into fat, bones, and their own flesh, and that materially they are nothing but water transchanged, and that they return into water by art” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “There is in the air something, that is less then a body, which fills up the emptinesses or little holes and pores in the air, and which is wholly annihilated by fire; It is actually void of all matter, and is a middle thing between a body and an Incorporeal Spirit, and almost nothing in respect of bodies; for it came from Nothing, and so may easily be reduced to nothing.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “a Rainbow is not a natural effect of a natural Cause, but a divine Mystery in its original; and that it has no matter, but yet is in a place, and has its colours immediately in a place, but in the air mediately, and that it is of the nature of Light.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “That although they may have concurring natural Causes, yet the mover of them is an Incorporeal Spirit, which is the Devil; who having obtained the Principality of this world, that he may be a certain executer of the Judgments of the chief Monarch, and so the Umpire and Comissioner of Lightning and Thunder, stirs up a monstrous and sudden Blas in the Air, yet under Covenanted Conditions; for unless his power were bridled by divine Goodness, he would shake the Earth with one stroke so, as to destroy all mortal men: and thus the cracking noise or voice of Thunder is nothing but a spiritual Blas of the Evil Spirit.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Trembling of the Earth, thinks it is nothing else but the Judgment of God for the sins of Impenitent men.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “directing Ideas, begotten by their Mother Charity, or a desire of Good will” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “Gift naturally inherent in the Archeusses of either part” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||
| Cavendish, Margaret (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical Letters. 1664. | “That Bodies scarce make up a moity or half part of the world; but Spirits, even by themselves, have or possess their moity, and indeed the whole world.” | quote | Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Van Helmont's Works, Containing His Most Excellent Philosophy, Physick, Chirurgery, Anatomy. 1664. | ||