Sir Isaac Newton

On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton dwells on the honorific funeral which Tollet, as a woman, would not have attended. On the analogy of Cicero 's restoration of the tomb of Archimedes , she...

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...

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 ...

She then recorded how she look[ed] back on my past life with shame and confusion, when I recollect the many advantages I have had, and the bad use I have made of them. But...

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

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

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

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...

In it, Charles II , Nell Gwyn , Isaac Newton , and George Fox , among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues.

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...

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

She was now free to pursue her mathematical studies with increased intensity. She tackled plane and spherical trigonometry and conic sections, read Newton 's Principia, and began to explore higher mathematics and physical astronomy...