title: Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science
author:  Patricia Fara 
description: Patricia Fara is a Fellow of Clare College at the University of Cambridge and works in the university's History and Philosophy of Science Department. An acclaimed author of adult popular science, she also wrote the first ever book on computers for children.
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  Copyright © 2019 by Maria Popova
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a
  division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by
  Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited,
  Toronto.
  
  Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House
  LLC.
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Name: Popova, Maria, author.
  
  Title: Figuring / Maria Popova.
  
  Description: First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2019. Includes
  bibliographical references and index.
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2018027009. ISBN 9781524748135 (hardcover : alk. paper).
  ISBN 9781524748142 (ebook).
  
  Subjects: LCSH: Women in science—History. Women and the arts—History.
  
  Classification: LCC HQ1397 .P67 2019 | DDC 305.43/5—dc23 | LC record available
  [lccn.loc.gov/​2018027009](http://lccn.loc.gov/2018027009)
  
  Ebook ISBN 9781524748142
  
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