Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Standard Name: Agnesi, Maria Gaetana

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Elizabeth Carter wrestled with this book, driving herself half mad to find out the meaning of it and telling Catherine Talbot she was enraged at her own stupidity. Pope Benedict XIV , to whom a...

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1750: The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed...

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The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed a woman, Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-99), as professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna .
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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