WOMEN IN THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION:THE ENLIGHTMENT

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    Sophia Brahe

    She was born on 1556 and died 1643.
    She was a Danish horticulturalist who studied the fields of astronomy, chemistry and medicine.
  • Maria Cunitz

    Maria Cunitz
    She was born on 1610 and died on 1664 .
    She was a German astronomer but she is best known for writing the book Urania Propitia, which gave a better and more advanced solution to Kepler's Problem.
  • Margaret Cavendish

    Margaret Cavendish
    She was born on 1623 and died 1673.
    She was a british writter, she wrote two books about sciences an also a natural philosopher who helped to make some important idea of the scientific revolution .
    The contribution that did was write books about natural philosophy and in that time was put his name in the book .
  • Maria Winkelmann

    Maria Winkelmann
    She was born on 1670 and died on 1720.
    She was a German astronomer who worked with his husband .
    In that time famele scientific weren't repect in that time, so she acted like his assistant .
    She was the fist women to discover a comet , also she published important works about northern light and more about the solar system.
  • Gabrielle Emilie Du Chatelet

    Gabrielle Emilie Du Chatelet
    She was born on 1706 and died on 1749.
    She was a French Mathematician and Physicist.
    She translate the biging of Newton in french and disclose his own theory .

    She known for besting an acclaimed director at the "Academy of Sciences" by finding a more proper formula for Kinetic Energy.
    Her most notorious contribution Physics was her corrections on Galileo's hypotheses.