Dumée, Jeanne (fl. 1680)
Dumée, Jeanne (fl. 1680)
French astronomer. Name variations: Jeanne Dumee. Born in Paris, France; fl. around 1680; widowed at age 17.
Wrote Entretiens sur l'opinion de Copernic touchant la mobilité de la terre defending Copernican theories and arguing for women's intellectual equality with men (manuscript held in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
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