Born: 1660, France
Died: 1706
Country most active: France
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
In her 1680 manuscript on Copernican and Galilean theories, astronomer Jeanne Dumée included an apology for writing on a subject considered “too delicate work for persons of her sex.” She wrote that her contemporaries considered themselves incapable of study, but she hoped her own example would convince them that there is no difference between a woman’s brain and a man’s.