Thursday, October 7, 2010

WOMEN SCIENTISTS (MS. CACAOS)

EARLY CIVILIZATION
  • MERIT PTAH- AN EGYPTIAN PHYSICIAN WHO CONTRIBUTED IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE
  • AGLAONIKE- STUDY NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN ANCIENT GREECE, WHO PREDICTED ECLIPSES
  • THEANO- MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIAN WHO WAS A PUPIL OF PHYTAGORAS
  • MERY THE JEWESS- IS CREDITED WITH INVENTING SEVERAL CHEMICAL INSTRUMENT INCLUDING THE DOUBLE BOILER AND A TYPE OF STILL
  • HYPORTIA OF ALEXANDRIA - WROTE TEXTS ON GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA AND ASTRONOMY AND IS CREDITED INVENTORS INCLUDING A HYDROMETER AN ASTROLABE AND AN INSTRUMENT FOR DISTILLING WATER
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (16TH - 17TH CENTURY)
  • MARGARET CAVENDISH - ARISTOCRATIC WOMAN. WROTE NUMBER OF VERSE ON SCIENTIFIC MATTERS INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS UPON EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.
  • MARIA WINKELMANN - MADE SOME ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS INCLUDING THE DISCOVERY OF A COMET
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (18TH CENTURY)
  • EMILIE AU CHATELET- TRANSLATED NEWTONS PRINCIPLE INTO FRENCH AND DEDUCED THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
  • MARIE ANNE PIERRETTE PALIZE - BEST KNOWN SCIENTIFIC WIVES
  • CAROLINE HERCHEL- DISCOVERED EIGHT COMETS
  • ELTEN SWALLOW RICHARDS - CALLED FOR THE "CHRISTENING OF A NEW SCIENCE" "AEKOLOGY" (ECOLOGY)

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