If we look into the heroic theory of invention and scientific development, I can bore you with the details of where the theory comes from or who theorized it.
But instead I want to take a new angle on my research paper. I want to shine a light on one scientist. One that has inspired me the most. Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale once said, “I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightingale contributed a lot to science but most don’t recognize her achievements in mathematics. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Florence Nightingale’s story starts in Florence, Italy.
On May 12, 1820 Florence Nightingale was born to to William Shore
Nightingale and Frances Nightingale in Florence, Italy. She was …show more content…
She actually enjoyed not being the center of attention whenever possible. Florence often butted heads with her mother, whom she viewed as overly controlling. Like many daughters, she was eager to please her mother. "I think I am got something more good-natured and complying," Florence wrote. Being raised on the family estate that her father owned, Lea Hurst, and being provided with an enriching, classical education, Florence Nightingale was active in philanthropy, ministering to the ill and poor people in the village neighboring her family’s estate. When she turned 16, it was clear to her that nursing was her calling. Her divine purpose. As expected, her parents were not pleased with her career choice and they forbid her from participating in nursing activities. They instead wanted her to marry a
“suitable” gentleman (during the Victorian Era, a young lady of her social stature was expected to marry a man of means rather than not take up a job that was viewed as lowly menial labor by the upper social classes.) She refused the proposal for this simple reason: while he stimulated her intellectually and romantically, her "moral...active nature...requires satisfaction, and that would …show more content…
She was also recognized by Queen Victoria. Nightingale was given £45,000 to build the Nightingale Training School for Nurses. She also helped start the Red
Cross and Red Crescent organization. Florence Nightingale also fell in love with mathematics as a child due to the fact that she begged her parents to let her study the subject. Nightingale connected her own statistical ideas to her religious beliefs. As a child, she had a wish to nurse the sick and remembered that her daydreams were all about hospitals; she thought these daydreams showed her that that was God’s calling to her. Much to her relief, this calling meant, that she would not have to be tied to a life of society and the stifling constraints of a
Victorian upper-middle class marriage. The divine inspiration gave her the opportunity to develop her intellectual pursuits.
As I conclude this paper, I would like to personally thank Florence
Nightingale for her contributions to math, science, and the steady race for gender equality. She truly believed that one day, a girl will have as much say as a man does. Works
But instead I want to take a new angle on my research paper. I want to shine a light on one scientist. One that has inspired me the most. Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale once said, “I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightingale contributed a lot to science but most don’t recognize her achievements in mathematics. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Florence Nightingale’s story starts in Florence, Italy.
On May 12, 1820 Florence Nightingale was born to to William Shore
Nightingale and Frances Nightingale in Florence, Italy. She was …show more content…
She actually enjoyed not being the center of attention whenever possible. Florence often butted heads with her mother, whom she viewed as overly controlling. Like many daughters, she was eager to please her mother. "I think I am got something more good-natured and complying," Florence wrote. Being raised on the family estate that her father owned, Lea Hurst, and being provided with an enriching, classical education, Florence Nightingale was active in philanthropy, ministering to the ill and poor people in the village neighboring her family’s estate. When she turned 16, it was clear to her that nursing was her calling. Her divine purpose. As expected, her parents were not pleased with her career choice and they forbid her from participating in nursing activities. They instead wanted her to marry a
“suitable” gentleman (during the Victorian Era, a young lady of her social stature was expected to marry a man of means rather than not take up a job that was viewed as lowly menial labor by the upper social classes.) She refused the proposal for this simple reason: while he stimulated her intellectually and romantically, her "moral...active nature...requires satisfaction, and that would …show more content…
She was also recognized by Queen Victoria. Nightingale was given £45,000 to build the Nightingale Training School for Nurses. She also helped start the Red
Cross and Red Crescent organization. Florence Nightingale also fell in love with mathematics as a child due to the fact that she begged her parents to let her study the subject. Nightingale connected her own statistical ideas to her religious beliefs. As a child, she had a wish to nurse the sick and remembered that her daydreams were all about hospitals; she thought these daydreams showed her that that was God’s calling to her. Much to her relief, this calling meant, that she would not have to be tied to a life of society and the stifling constraints of a
Victorian upper-middle class marriage. The divine inspiration gave her the opportunity to develop her intellectual pursuits.
As I conclude this paper, I would like to personally thank Florence
Nightingale for her contributions to math, science, and the steady race for gender equality. She truly believed that one day, a girl will have as much say as a man does. Works