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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 13 January 2020 and 20 April 2020. Further details are available
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The legacy structure of this page includes long textual summaries/subheads in some cases. I'm not sure the current structure works. Thoughts?
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This Wikipedia article is in error when it claims ("Critical Reception," second paragraph) Cavendish became the first woman inducted into the Royal Society in 1945. The Guardian article cited as evidence doesn't say that either. The first female to be inducted into the Royal Society was admitted in 1945, but it was Kathleen Lonsdale, not the long-dead Cavendish. Whether Cavendish has ever been posthumously inducted or whether that's even a thing, I don't know.--
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watever! —Preceding
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This entry was largely done by an undergraduate class a number of years ago and can use some significant restructuring in addition to the addition of inline citations.
DCavendish (
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17:03, 15 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Prince Rupert's drops seem first to have attracted scientific interest in Germany in the 1640s. By the 1650s they were being examined and discussed in France and the Netherlands, with a whole range of theories being produced concerning the drop's strange properties. One of the earliest recorded attempts at an explanation involved the Dutch polymath Sir
Constantijn Huygens and the amateur scientist Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
Cavendish was domiciled in Antwerp at the time, exiled from Britain during the Commonwealth period. In a letter to her following a visit, Huygens recorded a conversation they had about the drops - at the time known as "
Dutch tears" - in her private chemistry laboratory. There, each week, she apparently "dirtied several white petticoats" worn as overalls to protect her clothing while she conducted experiments.
It seems like this article needs somewhat of a major overhaul in the sense of organization. It appears to have a lot of information, but not really anywhere to put all this info. For this article, I will be trying to help this by restructuring the article. Two main things I want to do is implement the sections:
full narrative history
major works
Within these, I want to shift the information around so that it is more structured(, like her religion can go in her full narrative/life section), since there is a lot of information. — Preceding
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