![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is currently working on a book about Isaac Newton's final three decades in London, when he became Master of the Mint and President of the Royal Society. In addition to featuring in TV and radio programmes such as In Our Time, she regularly writes reviews and articles for publications such as Nature, The Times Literary Supplement, The Lancet and History Today. Her most recent is A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (2018) but others include the prize winning Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009), Newton: The Making of a Genius (2002) and Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (2004). Her major research topics are eighteenth-century England and scientific portraits, but she has published a range of academic and popular books on the history of science. Based at Cambridge University since 1993, she is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare College and was President of the British Society for the History of Science from 2016-18. In Science, Patricia Fara rewrites sciences past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. We talked about her latest book Science: A Four Thousand Year History. Patricia has a degree in physics from Oxford and a PhD in History of Science from London. history of science and is a Fellow of Clare College at the University of Cambridge. ![]()
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