Dr. Meredith Ray, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for their intellectual equality to men. Combining literary and cultural analysis, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Harvard University Press, 2015), rethinks early modern science, properly reintroducing the integral and essential work of women.