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History of science: Trial by gender

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Jennifer Rampling applauds an account of how Johannes Kepler saved his mother from being burned as a witch.

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  1. Jennifer Rampling is assistant professor of history at Princeton University in New Jersey, where she teaches the history of early modern science.,

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