Women and the Sciences: Visualizations and Datasets

This page collects visualizations and datasets from the “New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy” initiative.

This project is a London-Boston, collaborative project between Northeastern University London, the PolyGraphs project, the NULab, and the Women Writers Project (the project PIs are Sarah Connell, Julia Flanders, Brian Ball, and Peter West). The project examines and highlights the impacts of early women scientists and natural philosophers on the development of these disciplines during a formative period of the Enlightenment. The project takes Margaret Cavendish’s (1623–1673) engagements with the Royal Society as a case study in the relation between early women’s writing and early institutional science.

Network Analysis and Simulations

Network analysis and computer network simulations evaluating the status of women in early modern intellectual networks, working with data from the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon project. View