I am going to start the year by celebrating those scientists in my print collection whose birthdays aren’t known starting with one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep, royal official & overseer of priests, 🧵 - ThreadSky

minouette.bsky.social • 55 days ago

I am going to start the year by celebrating those scientists in my print collection whose birthdays aren’t known starting with one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep, royal official & overseer of priests, 🧵

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minouette.bsky.social•55 days ago

who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians.”

My linocut shows her dispensing medicine, with hieroglyphics spelling out her name (horizontally) & indicating that she was “wer snwnt per aa” or chief doctor (who happened to be female)

minouette.bsky.social•55 days ago

of the great house (or palace).

Both men and women were doctors in Ancient Egypt. They had a hierarchy of titles and specialties including ophthalmologist, gastroenterologist, proctologist & dentist. They were familiar with anatomy & the roles of many organs. They knew hundreds of medicinal plants

minouette.bsky.social•55 days ago

prescribed medicines & even performed surgeries! While their concepts of medicine were entwined with religion & magic, even in the Old Kingdom, they were performing some roles & duties we would recognize today, & women were part of this tradition.

This print is a new variation on my original print

minouette.bsky.social•55 days ago

depicting Merit Ptah (“beloved of the god Ptah”), previously belived to be the earliest recorded woman in STEM. It was recently shown she did not actually exist & her story was due to an accidental confusion of 2 separate women (including Peseshet). Nonetheless “Merit Ptah” has been a symbol of the

minouette.bsky.social•55 days ago

feminist struggle to write women back into history & the history of science & medicine, so I make both portraits available. “Merit Ptah” has inspired many & even had a crater on Venus named in her honour.

#linocut #printmaking #histmed #AncientEgypt

kghist.bsky.social•52 days ago

Fascinating thread.

whoa-magic.lol•52 days ago

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