Sir Isaac Newton

The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB 's name. This is the only instance of his...

Margaret Steuart and her sisters seem to have had an excellent eduction: evidence remains that Agnes at least studied mathematics with Professor Maclaurin , a friend of Isaac Newton .

EC , at not yet twenty-one, published another translation: Sir Isaac Newton 's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies, from an Italian popularisation by Francesco Algarotti .

The work she translated was Algarotti 's Italian version of Newton 's Optics. The project of translating back from the Italian popularisation of this famous work was recommended to her by Thomas Birch ....

While many of her articles were printed in the Edinburgh Review, she also contributed to a range of other periodicals. And while she focused her writings primarily on astronomy, she by no means neglected...

Comparatively little of AC 's philosophical correspondence has survived (that is, far more letters to her than from her are extant). This correspondence cover[ed] such topics as Quakerism , Familism, Behmen ism, Spinoza ...

In this pastoral elegy the poet links the dead woman with the famous dead: writers, thinkers and artists, Newton , Milton , Thomson , Lely , and Handel .

CH first used in her sweeping of the night sky for nebulae and comets a more powerful, Newtonian telescope.

John Jebb was then moved to a parish in Cambridge. Once back there he lectured in theology at Cambridge University, and took pupils to tutor. He had published a commentary on Sir Isaac Newton in...

The fanciful science-fiction drama presents a world ruled by Mother, who leads the older women of the world to banish men from society and from history. Schoolgirls are made to repeat the chorus, Shakespeare

The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison had famously rendered as The spacious...

JM 's Natural Philosophy again employs the formula of dialogue between Caroline and Emily and their teacher, Mrs B. Its preface, like all of JM 's, takes an apologetic tone about her limited knowledge (which...

DM sent her book to trusted readers before and after its publication. Her former instructor Samuel Alexander (who had published Space, Time and the Deity in 1920) advised against publication, telling her that the text...

SM ' s mother, born Elizabeth Homer , was the second wife of Thomas Strickland. Strickland's first wife, born Susanna Butt , was related to Sir Isaac Newton ; because of the connection the Strickland...

This novel is largely autobiographical, and contains an unsympathetic portrait of the author's mother, radical feminist Anna Wheeler , in the character of Aunt Marley. The school that Rosina attended is also portrayed as a...