The natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish : reason and fancy during the scientific revolution / Lisa T. Sarasohn.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

xi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender, nature, and natural philosophy -- A wonderful natural philosopher -- Cavendish's early atomism -- The life of matter -- The imaginative universe of natures pictures -- The politics of matter -- The challenge of immaterial matter -- Cavendish against the experimenters -- Material regenerations -- Does Cavendish matter?