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Sophia Brahe
She was born on 24 August 1559 in Denmark and died in 1643 in Denmark
Sophia Brahe was a Danish astronomer and horticulturist. She was the sister of Tycho Brahe, whom she assisted in his astronomical observations.
She collaborated in writing the catalogue detailing the position of the planets and the stellar background, which was used by Johannes Kepler to announce his astronomical laws. From 1588
after becoming a widow he devoted himself fully to horticulture, also producing spagyric medicine. -
Maria Cunitz
She was born on 29 May 1610 in Lower Silesia and died on 22 August 1664 in Poland.
Maria Cunitz was an astronomer, mathematician and astrologer.
She is the author of the book Urania propitia, where in addition to providing new planetary ephemerides, she presents a simpler version of Kepler's Second Law. She was known as the "Pallas of Silesia" and was compared to Hypatia of Alexandria by J.B. -
Margaret Cavendish
She was born in 1623 and died on 15 December 1673 in the United Kingdom
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English aristocrat and prolific writer
Who wrote a large number of works in which she expressed her liberal thinking and struggle for the recognition of women. -
Maria Sibylla Merian
She was born on 2 April 1647 in Germany and died on 13 January 1717 in the Netherlands.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a German entomologist, naturalist, explorer, scientific illustrator and painter of Swiss parents. -
Maria Winkelmann
She was born on 25 February 1670 and died on 29 December 1720 in Germany.
Maria Margarethe Winckelmann-Kirch was an Austrian astronomer.
She was her husband's assistant and later her son's assistant. -
Gabrielle Emilie Du Chatelet
She was born on 17 December 1706 and died on 10 September 1749 in France.
Émilie de Châtelet or Chastellet, whose full name was Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de Châtelet, was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, translator of Newton into French and disseminator of his theories.