
Patricia Fara
25 works on record
Biography
atricia Fara is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and did her PhD at the University of London. She is a former Fellow of Darwin College and is currently a Fellow of Clare College where she is Senior Tutor and Tutor for graduate students. Fara is also a research associate and lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fara is author of numerous popular books on the history of science and has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's science and history discussion series, In Our Time. She began her academic career as a physicist but returned to graduate studies as a mature student to specialise in History and Philosophy of Science, completing her PhD thesis at Imperial College, London in 1993.
Her areas of particular academic interest include the role of portraiture and art in the history of science, science in the 18th century England during the Enlightenment and the role of women in science. She has written and co-authored a number of books for children on science. Fara is also a reviewer of books on history of science.(Source: Goodreads)
Works

Science
2009

Scientists Anonymous
2007

Fatal attraction
2005

Pandora's breeches
2004

Sex, Botany and Empire
2003

An Entertainment for Angels
2002

Newton
2002

Sympathetic attractions
1996

Erasmus Darwin Sex Science And Serendipity

4000 Jahre Wissenschaft (German Edition)

The changing world

Memory

The Usborne book of discovery

Erasmus Darwin

Bilim

Inventors from Da Vinci to Biro
The application of science
The application of science
1997
The George III gallery at the Science Museum
The George III gallery at the Science Museum
1995
Computers
Computers
1982
A lab of one's own
A lab of one's own
Entertainment for Angels
Entertainment for Angels
Life after Gravity
Life after Gravity
Wissen Schaffen
Wissen Schaffen
Isaac Newton at Woolsthorpe Manor Lincolnshire
Isaac Newton at Woolsthorpe Manor Lincolnshire
Magnetic England in the eighteenth century
Magnetic England in the eighteenth century