THE ENLIGHTMENT

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  • 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.