WOMEN IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:THE ENLIGHTMENT

  • Marie Meurdrac

    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 pharmaceuticals by a woman and for women.​
  • Margaret Cavendish

    Margaret Cavendish
    Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. She wrote a large number of works, in which she records her liberal thinking and fight for the recognition of women.
  • Maria merian

    Maria merian
    Maria Sibylla Merian was a German scientist, pioneer of entomology, naturalist, explorer, scientific illustrator and painter, of Swiss parents.
    Although ignored for a long time, she is currently considered one of the most important initiators of modern entomology, thanks to her detailed observations and descriptions, with her own illustrations, of the metamorphosis of butterflies.
  • Maria winkelman

    Maria winkelman
    Maria Margarethe Winckelmann-Kirch was an Austrian astronomer, who as assistant to her husband and later her son, contributed to the establishment of the Berlin Academy of Sciences as the major center of astronomy.
  • Emilie du chatelet

    Emilie du chatelet
    Emilie du chatelet was a marchioness of Châtelet, was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, translator of Newton into French and disseminator of his theories.
  • Dorothea Schlözer

    Dorothea Schlözer
    Dorothea Schlözer was a German scholar and the first woman to receive the degree of doctor of philosophy in Germany.