Writing in 1913 under the name H. J. Mozans, Father John Zahm produced the first substantial history of women in science: Hypatia and the learned women of antiquity, Renaissance scholars, Sophie Germain smuggling her mathematics past prejudice, Mary Somerville, Sonya Kovalevsky — and a sustained argument that women’s scientific achievement had been limited by opportunity, never capacity.
Decades ahead of its time, it remains a moving roll-call and a bracing polemic. Download the free EPUB for the science history most histories left out.