Margaret Cavendish

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    Women in the Scientific Revolution

  • Cavendish published one of her main poems, Philosophical Fancies

  • Cavendish published collection of letter, Sociable Letters and Philosophical Letter

    Sociable Letters and Philosophical Letters (1664)
  • Cavendish published The Description of a New World

  • Maria Margarethe Kirch Winkelmann was born

    February 25, 1670
  • Maria Kinkelmann began recording weather.

  • Winkelmann, while doing her regular night observation, discovered a comet.

  • Winkelmann published her publication on the Aurora Borealis

  • Winkelmann presented sunspots at royal court of Prussia

  • Published Die Vorbereitung zug grossen Opposition which predicted a future comet.

    Die Vorbereitung zug grossen Opposition which predicted a future comet.
  • Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil was born

    Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil was born