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MARIE MEURDRAC
Marie Meurdrac was a 17th-century French alchemist and chemist known for her work La chymie charitable & facile, en faveur des dames, published in 1666. This work is one of the first written on the topics of chemistry and pharmaceutical by a woman and for women -
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN
Maria Sibylla Merian was a pioneer scientist of entomology, naturalist, explorer, scientific illustrator and German painter of Swiss parents. That work revealed plants and animals unknown in the Old Continent and consecrated it as the first empirical entomologist, who traveled to observe and describe insects in their own habitat. In sixty illustrations he detailed the life cycle of caterpillars, worms, moths... -
MARIA WINKELMANN
Maria Winckelmann was an Austrian astronomer. She was an assistant to her husband and after her son, she contributed to the establishment of the Berlin Academy of Sciences as the largest astronomical centre. was the most important and recognized astronomer of its time, published important works on the northern lights, the conjunction of the Sun with Saturn and Venus, and the prediction of a new comet in 1711. Maria died in 1720, and never received the honor for the discovery of her comet. -
ÉMILIE DU CHATELET
Émilie de Châtelet or Chastellet, Marquise de Châtelet, was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, translator of Newton into French and diffuser of his theories. She was a French lady who translated Newton’s Principia and published the concepts of differential and integral calculus in her book The Institutions of Physics, a three-volume work published in 1740. -
MARGARET CAVENDISH
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English aristocrat and prolific writer born in 1623. He wrote a large number of works, in which he recorded his liberal thinking and his struggle for the recognition of women. participated in discussions on matter, movement, existence of void, perception and knowledge. His most notable contributions are his writings, which include poems, plays, literary criticism, letters and essays on natural philosophy and science. -
DOROTHEA SCHLOZER
Dorothea Schlözer was a German scholar and the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Germany.
