WOMEN IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:THE ENLIGHTMENT

Maria Winkelmann

1670 BCE

Maria Margarethe Winckelmann Kirch she was born in Panitzsch, February 25, 1670 Berlin, January 29, 1720, was an Austrian astronomer. She was an assistant to her husband and after her son, she contributed to the establishment of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. She was the most important and renowned astronomer of her time, she published important works on the northern lights, the conjunction of the Sun with Saturn and Venus, and the prediction of a new comet in 1711

Maria Sibylla Merian

1647 BCE

she was born April 2, 1647, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
She was a pioneering scientist of entomology, naturalist, explorer, scientific illustrator and German painter, of Swiss parents.
That work revealed unknown plants and animals in the Old Continent and consecrated her as the first empirical entomologist, who traveled to observe and describe insects in their own habitat.
discovered metamorphosis when he was 13 years old and did a unique job in South America.

Margaret Cavendish

1623 BCE

she born 1623 o 1617 Colchester (Reino Unido)
she died 15 de diciembre de 1673 o 1674 Reino de Inglaterra Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English aristocrat and prolific writer. She wrote a large number of works, in which she records her liberal thinking and fights for the recognition of women. His writings on philosophy and natural philosophy, that is, physics-include Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1656), Orations of Divers Sorts, Philosophical Letters (1664)

María Cunitz

1610 BCE

Maria Cunitz was born in Silesia (now Poland) in 1610. She was the last child of Heinrich Cunitz, a doctor from Schweidnitz (Świdnica), and Maria Scholtz, daughter of the German scientist Anton Scholtz.
She 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.
The publication of the book Urania propitia in 1650 earned him a great reputation

Sophia Brahe

1556 BCE

Sophia Brahe was born in 1556 in Knudstrup, Denmark. Danish scientist, astronomer, horticulturist, alchemist and historian. He belonged to a noble Danish family, which was part of a group very close to the Danish King Frederick II (1534-1588)
He also began working in chemistry (then alchemy) creating spagyric drugs that he marketed to the Scandinavian upper class.He collaborated in the drafting of the catalog detailing the position of the planets and the stellar background

Marie Curie

Jul 8, 1867

she Born November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Poland She was a French nationalized Polish physicist and chemist. Pioneer in the field of radioactivity, she is the first and only to receive two Nobel Prizes in different scientific specialties: Physics and Chemistry. She was also the first woman to hold the position of professor at the University of Paris and the first to receive burial with honors at the Pantheon in Paris on his own merits in 1995