Women's Role In The Scientific Revolution
Women were very involved in the Scientific Revolution just as they were in the Humanistic and Renaissance Movements. A few talented women scientists had many theories about the world. Women in the Scientific Revolution had very little education in science they had to study on their own most of their families criticized them instead of encouraging them. They charted their own findings just like their male counterparts.
Maria Merian was the most gifted naturalists of the 18 century, she was more known for her art. She published six collections of engravings of European flowers and insects. She painted caterpillars at every stage of development. She went to South America where she caught yellow fever and she had to return home. She published …show more content…
She was a noble French woman and was a polyglot, and read extremely fast. She was a physicist and interpreted and translated theories of Sir Isaac Newton and also replicated many of Newton’s experiments. Margaret Cavendish was an English woman after teaching herself math, astronomy and studied the universe. She wrote fourteen books on every subject from natural history to atomic physics.
The next woman was a child prodigy and was able to write, read and speak seven languages. Maria Agnesi languages were Italian, French, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, and Hebrew. She published a calculus textbook in 1748 which was the first and most complete textbook covering calculus and was translated into other languages. Dr. Agnesi was the second woman to gain a PhD. one of her algebraic equations is still found in textbooks today.
Another woman was Eliza Pinckney from the West Indies her favorite subject was Botany. Her claim to fame was cultivating and creating an improved strain of the indigo plant which was the source for blue dye. Her Sons were some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and President George Washington was one of her …show more content…
A few talented women scientists had many theories about the world. Women in the Scientific Revolution had very little education in science they had to study on their own most of their families criticized them instead of encouraging them. They charted their own findings just like their male counterparts.
Maria Merian was the most gifted naturalists of the 18 century, she was more known for her art. She published six collections of engravings of European flowers and insects. She painted caterpillars at every stage of development. She went to South America where she caught yellow fever and she had to return home. She published her book of sixty engravings making her naturalist two hundred years before Darwin.
Emilie Du Chatelet knew seven languages by the age of twelve and was the erudite of the women scientists. She was a noble French woman and was a polyglot, and read extremely fast. She was a physicist and interpreted and translated theories of Sir Isaac Newton and also replicated man of Newton’s experiments. Margaret Cavendish was an English woman after teaching herself math, astronomy and studied the universe. She wrote fourteen books on every subject from natural history to atomic
Maria Merian was the most gifted naturalists of the 18 century, she was more known for her art. She published six collections of engravings of European flowers and insects. She painted caterpillars at every stage of development. She went to South America where she caught yellow fever and she had to return home. She published …show more content…
She was a noble French woman and was a polyglot, and read extremely fast. She was a physicist and interpreted and translated theories of Sir Isaac Newton and also replicated many of Newton’s experiments. Margaret Cavendish was an English woman after teaching herself math, astronomy and studied the universe. She wrote fourteen books on every subject from natural history to atomic physics.
The next woman was a child prodigy and was able to write, read and speak seven languages. Maria Agnesi languages were Italian, French, Latin, Greek, German, Spanish, and Hebrew. She published a calculus textbook in 1748 which was the first and most complete textbook covering calculus and was translated into other languages. Dr. Agnesi was the second woman to gain a PhD. one of her algebraic equations is still found in textbooks today.
Another woman was Eliza Pinckney from the West Indies her favorite subject was Botany. Her claim to fame was cultivating and creating an improved strain of the indigo plant which was the source for blue dye. Her Sons were some of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and President George Washington was one of her …show more content…
A few talented women scientists had many theories about the world. Women in the Scientific Revolution had very little education in science they had to study on their own most of their families criticized them instead of encouraging them. They charted their own findings just like their male counterparts.
Maria Merian was the most gifted naturalists of the 18 century, she was more known for her art. She published six collections of engravings of European flowers and insects. She painted caterpillars at every stage of development. She went to South America where she caught yellow fever and she had to return home. She published her book of sixty engravings making her naturalist two hundred years before Darwin.
Emilie Du Chatelet knew seven languages by the age of twelve and was the erudite of the women scientists. She was a noble French woman and was a polyglot, and read extremely fast. She was a physicist and interpreted and translated theories of Sir Isaac Newton and also replicated man of Newton’s experiments. Margaret Cavendish was an English woman after teaching herself math, astronomy and studied the universe. She wrote fourteen books on every subject from natural history to atomic