Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity; she argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise.
Pythagoras' Trousers is a highly original history of one of science's most powerful disciplines. It is also a passionate argument for the need to involve both women and men in the process of shaping the technologies from the next generation of physicists.
- ISBN10 0393317242
- ISBN13 9780393317244
- Publish Date 15 September 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English