Paula Findlen is an American academic and historian whose work focuses on the history of science and medicine, and the history of the Renaissance. Her scholarship delves into museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy. Her writing analyzes how the natural worlds were collected, organized, and interpreted within early modern European societies. Findlen examines early modern science as a cultural and social practice.
"English translation of letters by a woman pharmacist, a grocer's daughter and pharmacist's wife, active in the scientific milieu of Padua, in which is proposed a materialist explanation of Noah's flood that prompts an accusation of heresy. Accompanying her own letters are letters to her and a legal brief in her defense"--