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First, pick a theme to focus on for both of your précis.

Then, choose one of the texts you are thinking of writing your précis on, and start to skim the text for any references you can find in the text that represent that theme.

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As you skim, write down a reference here on a tile.  Use the white plus sign to open up a tile and type the sentence from the text into the tile.  Put your name at the top of the tile.

Include the author, title, and page number that your quote comes from.

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Once you have identified a piece of text where the author says something relevant to your theme, use this sentence stem to put it in your own words. Insert the author's last name, choose the right verb to match the meaning you want to convey, and finish the sentence:

[Author's last name] shows/argues/explains that...

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Use the white plus sign under "Put it in your own words" to add your draft to a tile

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"sometimes new technology permitted new science; other times, the relationship was reversed." (Jacob 8).

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"perfect"
Schiebinger, "The Mind Has No Sex" page 163.

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"This consists of a collection of the worms and caterpillars I nourished daily with food, observing them until they achieved complete transformation"
Merian pg 105

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"His scientific vision arose alongside and in step with important political trends in the eighteenth century-the restructuring of both child care and women's lives as mothers, wives, and citizens. Despite the Enlightenment credo that all 'men' were by nature equal, middle-class women were not to become fully enfranchised citizens or professionals in the state, but newly emowerered mothers within the home."
Why mammals are called mammals by Schiebinger page 66.

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"Therefore, I ask the gentleman to consider this matter together with other knowledgable scholars and to advise me as to how I could best accomplish this without loss and to the contentment of the gentlemen scholars and collectors." pg 102

Letter about Her Scientific Work
Maria Sibylla Merian

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"The possibility of transformation was only one way, however: Galen had argued that, though a woman might become a man, a man could not become a women. This, he explained, was because nature strives always for perfection." "The Mind Has No Sex" (pg 164)

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"Taking the widest formulation of each of these 2 opposites... [we regard] the male qua active and causing movement and the female qua passive and being set in movement." That is why Aristotle spoke of the nature of the earth as something female, calling it "mother," while the heaven and sun were given the title of "generation" and "father". (pg. 162-3, Competing Cosmologies)

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Merian asks the doctor, or recipient of the letter, for his advice on how to minimize the out-of-pocket costs to herself while maintaining the quality of work now expected of her by the men of the scientific community as well as those who value her work for its artistic ability.

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Merian writes that her careful process of observation required her to keep insects alive until they could complete their life cycle.

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In regards to the structure of hierarchy within this time period a man within the binary would have been the peak "transformation" or being of a person. There is discussion of the elements, heat, cold, wet, and dry, contributing to how one can be more masculine and typically this is favored. This contributes to the favoritism of men since in their views being a man with testicles was absolute.

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Schiebinger shares a quote where Aristotle explains why he first considered the Earth to be a feminine force and the heavens to be a masculine force, since he saw them as complimentary opposites.

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Linnaeus's conception of animal classification came about during a time when women's domestic lives were being restructured by political changes. Although women should have been given equality during the Enlightenment, they were instead encouraged to embrace motherhood and domesticity.

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"Tycho Brache (1546-1601) took planetary observation to new standards of accuracy and even discovered new stars." (Francis Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning." 13)