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Ele Willoughby, PhD
Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Starting 2026 with some unknown birthdays: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ which she appended to her treatise ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. An odd addition to my collection of scientists, 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/611949454

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #scifi #naturalPhilosophy #MargaretCavendish

My linocut portrait of Margaret Cavendish in gold holding a large globe of The Blazing World; it’s blue with icicles at the top and water at the bottom and several personages in between. The Empress, is a gold dress and crown is in the centre. To her right is a group of anthropomorphic animal scientists: a red northern cardinal-man, polar bear-man with white head, a pink worm-man, and a white goose-man. On her left are a green fish-man, and brown gorilla- and bear-man. Below is a hexagonal submarine with louse-man at porthole window.
My linocut portrait of Margaret Cavendish in gold holding a large globe of The Blazing World; it’s blue with icicles at the top and water at the bottom and several personages in between. The Empress, is a gold dress and crown is in the centre. To her right is a group of anthropomorphic animal scientists: a red northern cardinal-man, polar bear-man with white head, a pink worm-man, and a white goose-man. On her left are a green fish-man, and brown gorilla- and bear-man. Below is a hexagonal submarine with louse-man at porthole window.
My linocut portrait of Margaret Cavendish in gold holding a large globe of The Blazing World; it’s blue with icicles at the top and water at the bottom and several personages in between. The Empress, is a gold dress and crown is in the centre. To her right is a group of anthropomorphic animal scientists: a red northern cardinal-man, polar bear-man with white head, a pink worm-man, and a white goose-man. On her left are a green fish-man, and brown gorilla- and bear-man. Below is a hexagonal submarine with louse-man at porthole window.
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