Agnes Mary Clerke
Agnes Mary Clerke was an Irish astronomer and writer on both astronomy and biography.
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María Andresa Casamayor
María Andresa Casamayor was the first Spanish woman to publish a science book. In March 1738, when only 17 years old, she published the arithmetic text Tyrocinio arithmético designed to facilitate the learning of basic arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Florence Marie Harsant
Temperance worker, nurse, community leader, writer
Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547), an Italian poet
Émilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet was a French noblewoman who became important to mathematics as the translator of Newton’s Principia.
Agnes Macready
Agnes Macready should be regarded as the first Australian woman war correspondent, although there was no official system at this time for accreditation.
Mākereti Papakura
Tūhourangi woman of mana, guide, ethnographer
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Agnesi was an Italian mathematician who is noted for her work in differential calculus. She discussed the cubic curve now known as the ‘witch of Agnesi’.
Georgia Benkart
Georgia Benkart was an outstanding mathematician who received many honours for her research on Lie algebras and related topics. She served the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics in severable roles (she was President of the AWM) and was an inaugural fellow of each.
Ninon de l’Enclos
Being beautiful, witty and fond of cultivated society, she soon became popular in Paris, where she fixed her residence, her favors being sought by many of the most eminent men of the time.