Affiliated Lecturers and College Teaching Officers

Patricia Fara

Fellow of Clare College

Research interests: Eighteenth-century natural philosophy; cultural history of science

Selected publications

• Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment (Icon Books, 2005)
• Athene's Owl: A History of Women in Science (Wizard, 2005)
• Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (Pimlico, 2004)
• Sex, Botany and Empire: The Stories of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Icon Books, 2003)
• Newton: The Making of Genius (Macmillan, 2002)
• An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (Icon Books, 2002)
• Sympathetic Attractions: Magnetic Practices, Beliefs, and Symbolism in Eighteenth-Century England (Princeton University Press, 1996)
• Memory (Cambridge University Press, 1998) (co-edited)
• The Changing World (Cambridge University Press, 1996) (co-edited)