, a learned French lady, was born at Paris, and instructed from
, a learned French lady, was born at
Paris, and instructed from her earliest infancy in the belles
lettres. She was married very young; but scarcely had
she attained the age of seventeen, when her husband was
killed in Germany at the head of a company he commanded.
She took advantage of the liberty her widowhood gave her,
to apply her mind to study, particularly that of astronomy,
and published, in 1680, at Paris, a quarto volume, under
the title of “Discourses of Copernicus touching the Mobility of the Earth, by Mad. Jeanne Dtimee of Paris.
” She
explains with clearness the three motions attributed to the
enrth and exhibits the arguments that establish or militate
against the system of Corpernicus with impartiality.