Pierre Gassendi

During their exile, the marquess entertained influential materialist thinkers Thomas Hobbes , Pierre Gassendi , and René Descartes ; Margaret Cavendish says she made no contribution to their learned discussions, but it seems likely that...

Visiting AMS became a custom among cultivated people travelling in or to Utrecht. She met Elizabeth, Princess Palatine (daughter of the Queen of Bohemia ), and became a friend and correspondent of a network of...

Having laid out her case, AMS proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious...

Gassendi seems to have seen her work in manuscript, since in the printed version she says he has praised her short essay on female education more highly than it deserved.

The full title was The Learned Maid; or, Whether a Maid may be a Scholar? A Logick exercise written in Latine by that incomparable virgin Anna Maria à Schurman of Utrecht. With some epistles to...