THE ENLIGHTMENT

By izaroE
  • Margaret Cavendish.

    Margaret Cavendish.
    He was a good writer and his writings, which include poems, plays, literary criticism, letters and essays on natural philosophy and science.
  • Anne Conway

    Anne Conway
    Is one of the philosophers of the seventeenth century who argued with the leading philosophers of her time. The only work we have of this author is Principia Philosophiae Anticissimae et Recentissimae (1690) or The Principle of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692).
  • Maria Sibylla Merian

    Maria Sibylla Merian
    She was one of the most important entomologists and scientific illustrators of all time.
    From a young age she collected insects to study their behavior and illustrate the different stages of their life.
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell
    She became the first to graduate with a medical degree in the United States,
  • Sarah Anne Drake

    Sarah Anne Drake
    She was a english botanical illustrator who worked with John Lindley and collaborated with, among others, illustrators Augusta Innes Withers and Nathaniel Wallich.
  • Marianne North

    Marianne North
    She was a botanical illustrator, painter, biologist, scientific illustrator, explorer, traveler, philanthropist and plant collector.