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List Of Female Scientists Before The 20th Century
This is a ''historical'' list, intended to deal with the time period where it is believed that women working in science were rare. For this reason, this list ends with the 20th century. Antiquity * Gargi Vachaknavi (7th century BCE), Indian philosopher * Abrotelia (5th century BCE), philosopher in Ancient Greece * Aemilia (c. 300 CE–363 CE), Gallo-Roman physician * Aesara of Lucania (4th or 3rd century BCE), philosopher in Ancient Greece * Agamede (12th century BCE), physician in Ancient Greece (possibly mythical) * Aglaonike (2nd century BCE), first woman astronomer in Ancient Greece * Agnodike (4th century BCE), first woman physician to practice legally in Athens * Andromache (mid-6th century), Egyptian physician * Anyte (300 BCE), Greek physician and poet * Arete of Cyrene (5th–4th centuries BCE), Greek natural and moral philosopher * Artemisia of Caria (c. 300 BCE), botanist * Asclepigenia (4th CE), Greek Neoplatonist * Aspasia (4th century BCE), philosopher and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurelia Alexandria Zosime
Aurelia may refer to: People * Version of feminine given name Aurélie * Aurelia (mother of Caesar) * Aurelia gens, a Roman family * Aurelia Browder, American civil rights activist * Astrud Aurelia, American drag queen Science * ''Aurelia'' (cnidarian), genus of jellyfishes in the family Ulmaridae * Aurelia, synonym for chrysalis * Aurelia (crater), a crater on Venus * 419 Aurelia, an asteroid * Aurelia, a hypothetical Earth-sized planet orbiting a red dwarf star Places * Aurelia, medieval Latin name for Orléans * Aurelia, Iowa, a small city in the United States Arts and entertainment * The title character of Giraudoux's play ''The Madwoman of Chaillot'' * ''Aurelia'' (telenovela), a Mexican telenovela * "Aurelia", a hymn tune for "The Church's One Foundation" by Samuel Sebastian Wesley * "Aurélia", an 1855 novella by Gérard de Nerval * "Aurelia", a 1953 single by The Pelicans * "Aurelia", a track from the 2017 album ''AFI'' by AFI Other uses * Via Aurelia, an Ancient Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Fabiola
Fabiola was a nurse (physician) and Roman matron of rank of the company of noble Roman women who, under the influence of the Church father Jerome, gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted themselves to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work. Early life Fabiola belonged to the patrician Roman family of the gens Fabia. She had been married to a man who led so vicious a life that to live with him was impossible. She obtained a divorce from him according to Roman law and, contrary to the ordinances of the Catholic Church, she entered upon a second union before the death of her first husband. At the time of Jerome's stay at Rome (382-84), Fabiola was not one of the ascetic circle which gathered around him. It was only later that, upon the death of her second consort, she decided to enter upon a life of renunciation and labour for others. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enheduanna
Enheduanna ( sux, , also transliterated as , , or variants) was the priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur in the reign of her father, Sargon of Akkad. She was likely appointed by her father as the leader of the religious cult at Ur to cement ties between the Akkadian religion of her father and the native Sumerian religion. Enheduanna has been celebrated as the earliest known named author in world history, as a number of works in Sumerian literature, such as the ''Exaltation of Inanna'' feature her as the first person narrator, and other works, such as the ''Sumerian Temple Hymns'' may identify her as their author. However, there is considerable debate among modern Assyriologists based on linguistic and archaeological grounds as to whether or not she actually wrote or composed any of the rediscovered works that have been attributed to her. Additionally, the only manuscripts of the works attributed to her were written by scribes in the First Baby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elephantis
Elephantis ( grc, Ἐλεφαντίς) (fl. late 1st century BC) was a Greek poet and physician apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious sex manual. Due to the popularity of courtesans taking animal names in classical times, it is likely Elephantis is two or more persons of the same name. None of her works have survived, though they are referenced in other ancient texts. Works According to Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars, the Roman Emperor Tiberius took a complete set of her works with him when he retreated to his resort on Capri. One of the poems in the ''Priapeia'' refers to her books: :''Obscenas rigido deo tabellasdicans ex Elephantidos libellisdat donum Lalage rogatque, temptes,si pictas opus edat ad figuras.'' ("Lalage dedicates a votive offering to the God of the erect penis, bringing shameless pictures from the books of Elephantis, and begs him to try and imitate with her the variety of intercourse of the figures in the illustrations.")Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diotima Of Mantinea
Diotima of Mantinea (; el, Διοτίμα; la, Diotīma) is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek character in Plato's dialogue '' Symposium'', possibly an actual historical figure, indicated as having lived circa 440 B.C. Her ideas and doctrine of ''Eros'' as reported by the character of Socrates in the dialogue are the origin of the concept today known as Platonic love. Identity The name Diotima means one who honors or is honored by Zeus, and her descriptor as "Mantinikê" (Mantinean) seems designed to draw attention to the word "''mantis''", which suggests an association with prophecy. Explicitly described as a foreigner (ξένη) (201e) and as wise (σοφὴ) in not only the subject of love but also of many other things (ἄλλα πολλά), she is often associated with priestcraft by a majority of scholars insofar as: 1 - she advises the Athenians on sacrifice (thusiai) which delayed the onset of a plague (201d), and 2 - her speech on eros utilizes the language of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damo (philosopher)
Damo (; grc-gre, Δαμώ; fl. c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher said by many to have been the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano. Early life Tradition relates that she was born in Croton, and was the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano.Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 42-3Suda, ''Pythagoras'' π3120Iamblichus, ''On the Pythagorean Life'', 146 According to Iamblichus, Damo married Meno the Crotonian. Some accounts refer to her as an only daughter, while others indicate that she had two sisters, Arignote and Myia (married to Milo of Croton). With her brother Telauges, they became members of the Pythagorean sect founded by their father. Writing References to Damo can be found in the works of Diogenes Laërtius, Athenaeus and Iamblichus, although little is known about her life. As the sect credited Pythagoras with authorship for members' work, it is likely that Damo contributed to the doctrines ascribed to the philosopher. According to one story, Pythagoras bequeathed his writings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleopatra The Alchemist
Cleopatra the Alchemist (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα; fl. c. 3rd century AD) was a Greek alchemist, author, and philosopher. She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists who could produce the Philosopher's stone. Some writers consider her to be the inventor of the alembic, a distillation apparatus. Cleopatra the Alchemist appears to have been active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or 4th century A.D. She is associated with the school of alchemy typified by Mary the Jewess and Comarius. These alchemists used complex apparatus for distillation and sublimation.Taylor, F. Sherwood. “A Survey of Greek Alchemy”. ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' 50 (1930): 109–139. Identity and misnomers Cleopatra is a pseudonym for an unknown author or group of authors. She is not the same person as Cleopatra VII. Nonetheless, she is referred to as Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, in some later works. One example of this can be found in ''Basi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clea (philosopher)
Clea Strange () is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Clea first appeared in the Doctor Strange feature in ''Strange Tales'' #126 (November 1964). She is a sorceress, the disciple, lover, and eventual wife of Doctor Stephen Strange, and his successor as Sorcerer Supreme. Clea is a human-appearing being and maternally related to the other-dimensional Faltine race of energy beings. The daughter of Umar and niece of the demonic tyrant Dormammu, Clea has been, sporadically, ruler of the Dark Dimension, the mystical realm to which Dormammu had been banished and that he subsequently conquered. Publication history The character was introduced during a story arc in which Doctor Strange confronted Dormammu for the first time. Clea remained nameless for several issues, referred to only as the "captive female" or the "mysterious silver-haired girl". It was later noted that her father is Dormammu's closest disciple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
