Makin, Bathsua, Mary More, and Robert Whitehall. Educating English Daughters. Teague, Frances, Margaret J. M. Ezell, and Jessica WalkerEditors , Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary More | Her son, Richard Waller
, was an artist, poet, and natural philosopher or scientist. He served as Secretary to the Royal Society
from 1687 to 1709, and edited posthumous works by Robert Hooke
. Makin, Bathsua, Mary More, and Robert Whitehall. Educating English Daughters. Teague, Frances, Margaret J. M. Ezell, and Jessica WalkerEditors , Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016. 108, 109 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Friends, Associates | Mary More | MM
's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke
(who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane
, and scholar... |
Occupation | Sir Isaac Newton | The telescope brought him fame and an invitation to join the Royal Society
, though it also brought an acrimonious controversy with Robert Hooke
. |