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Morandi-Menzolini, Anna,79.Morati, Fulvia Olympia,62,70.More, Sir Thomas, daughters of,69.Morella, Juana,68,69.Morphology, cellular,254.Motherhood, intellectual development and,415,416.Mozart,359.Müller, John, of Königsburg,170.Murat, Joachim,311.Murfeldt, Mary E.,254.Murphy, Anna.SeeJameson, Mrs.Myrtides,17.Myrus,17.Nairne, Lady,264.Naples, school of medicine at,297.Napoleon,155,209,299,311,313;weight of brain of,120.Natural sciences, women in,233-264.Naturalists, Congress of, in 1893,245.Nautical Almanac, Miss Mitchell, compiler for,191,192.Navarre, Pierre de, quoted,45footnote.Navier,156.Navigation, Janet Taylor's works on,161.Necker, Mme.,281footnote.Nelli, Suor Plantilla,60.Newnham College,100;Jane E. Harrison's lectures at,332.Newton,202,207,209,371,384.Newtonism for Women, Algarotti's,152.Newton'sPrincipia,206;Mme. du Châtelet's translation of,152,175,176,201.New York Infirmary,303.Nicarete,11.Nightingale, Florence,267,274,281footnote.Ninon de Lenclos,11,90,92.Nobel prize, in chemistry awarded to Mme. Curie by King of Sweden,228;in physics awarded to the Curies and M. H. Becquerel,228;won by Madame Curie,394.Noe-Candedi, Maddelena,298.Nogorola, Ginevra,58footnote.Nogorola, Isotta,58footnote.Nossidis,17.Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles, by François Huber,372.Noves, Laura de,357,362.Nuns, Anglo-Saxon,36-42;German,43-50;accomplishments of,51;influence of,51-53;medical work of,274-281.Nur Mahal,336.Nuttall, Zelia, archæologist,322-324.Nutting, M. Adelaide,280footnote.Oclo, Mama, inventions of,336.Octavia,24.Odyssey,267;translated by Mme. Dacier,82;quotation from,267.On Curves and Surfaces of Higher Order, by Mary Somerville,160.On Molecular and Microscopic Science, by Mary Somerville,160,212.On the Theory of Differences, by Mary Somerville,160.Opusculaof Anna Maria von Schurman,95.Ordronaux, J.,283and284footnote.Origenia, physician,270.Origin de l'Homme et de Sociétés, by Clemence Royer,246.Orlando Furioso,276.Ormerod, Eleanor, economic entomologist,246-252,264;entomological publications of,249-250;important positions of,251,252.Ornithology,254.Orr, M. A.,196.Ostia, Fabiola's hospital at,272.Otto III,52.Ovid,5; in praise of Livia,24.Oxford, H. Rashdall,288footnote.Oxford, University of, funds from suppressed convents devoted to,41,42;attitude of, toward women,65,80,100,230.Oxygen, discoveries of,216;discovery of, by Lavoisier,216.Ozanam, quoted,55.Padua,296.Padua, University of, Elena Cornaro Piscopia honored by,77.Palatine, Princess,82.Paleontology, Frau Kablick's study of,242-243.Palgrave, comparison of Milton and Cædmon by,38.Pallas Athene, inventions of,335.Palmer, Mrs. Margaretta, of Yale,195.Paradise Lost, quoted from389.Paris, medical work of women in,288-290,292;Faculty of Medicine in, opposition by, to Jacobe Felicie,289.Parthenay, Catherine de,362.Pascal,82,113,140.Pascal, Gilberte and Jaqueline,82.Passions de l'Âmeof Descartes,370.Pasteur, Louis,113,114,226,247,248.Pasteur, Mme.,376,377,383footnote.Patch, Edith M.,254.Patents granted to women inventors,344-355.Patterson, Florence Wambaugh, work in,254.Patterson, Florence Wambaugh,254.Paula,31-34,357,361.Pavia,296;University of, degree conferred on Maria Pellegrina Amoretti by,78.Peckham, Elizabeth W.,254.Pennington, Lady, quoted,98footnote.Pennsylvania, University of,322.Pereyaslawzewa, Sophia, biologist,244-245.Perez, Antonio,68.Perez, Gregoria,68.Perez, Luisa,68.Pericles, quoted,4;influence of Aspasia on,12-14.Perictione,8.Perugino,66.Petraccini-Terretti, Maria,79.Petrarch,357,358footnote.Pfeiffer, Ida, traveler,255,256.Phelps, Almira Lincoln,254.Phidias,12.Philosophy, achievements of women in, in ancient Greece,8;Clemence Royer's books on,245.Phryne,11.Physica,233,234.Physica, by St. Hildegard,278.Physical Geography, by Mary Somerville,160,211.Physical power, relation of, to mental energy, arguments based on,111-115,127.Physicians, women, in Italy,295-300;American attitude toward,300-304;See alsoMedical women.Physics, women in,197-213;Clemence Royer's books on,245.Physiology, vegetable, Florence Patterson's work in,254.Pierry, Mme. du,178,179.Pindar, defeated by Corinna,6.Pio Albergo Trivulzio, Maria Gaetana Agnesi in charge of,149.Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women, by ElizabethBlackwell,302footnote.Pisa, Leonardo da,141.Pisan, Christine de,53,106-108;on intellectual capacity of women,134,135.Piscopia, Elena Cornaro, of Venice,77,142,143.Planisphere, invention of, by Hypatia,140,200.Platearius, John,284.Plato,10,11,137;in praise of Sappho,5;quoted,11;influence of Aspasia on,13,16;on education of women,15,16;on the seclusion of Athenian women,26,27;ideal of, of equal rights for women,399.Pliny,270;quoted,28,29.Plotinus,200.Plutarch,22,167;quoted,4footnote,95;in praise of Cornelia,26.Poetry, achievements of women in, in ancient Greece,5-7;in ancient Rome,28;in the Renaissance,61,62.Pogson, Miss, in the Observatory of Madras, India,196.Poisson,154.Polignac, Cardinal,204.Politian,63,73.Political economy, Clemence Royer's work in,245.Polonium, discovery of, by Mme. Curie,223.Polydamna, physician,267,268.Pompeii, excavations of Queen Caroline at,311,312.Pope,98,113.Porcia,23.Portico, the admission of women to,10.Portinari, Beatrice,357.Poupard, Mary E.,347footnote.Pratique des Accouchements, by Mme. La Chapelle,294.Praxilla,6,17.Praxiteles,11.Précieuses Ridicules, of Molière,30,85-87,172.Priestly,216.Primitive Athens as Described by Thucydides, by Jane E. Harrison,332footnote.Princesse de Clèves,91.Principia, Newton's, Émilie du Châtelet's translation of,152,175,176,201.Principia Philosophiæof Descartes,369,370.Priscianus, Theodorus,271.Prix Bordin, won by Sónya Kovalévsky,163.Problema Practicumof Anna Van Schurman,95footnote.Procopius,277footnote.Proctor, Mary,196.Proctor, R. A.,196.Prodromus Astronomiæ, of Hevilius,175.Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religionby Jane E. Harrison,332footnote.Prony,216.Proudhon,111,245,334,338,346.Psalter, Latin, St. Jerome's version of, corrected by Paula and Eustochium,32,33.Psychology, as a basis of woman's equality with man,399.Public affairs, woman's influence in, in ancient Rome,23-25.Pudentilla,356.Punch, quoted,302footnote.Pusey, E. B.,113.Putnam, Mary C., physician,290footnote;304.Pythagoras,137,197,199.Queensland Amalie Dietrich's botanical work in,244.Quintilian, Hortensia praised by,27.Quintus Maximus,273.Rabelais,57;attitude of, toward women,75.Radcliffe College,255.Radium, discovery of, by the Curies,224.Rambouillet, Marquise de,88,89.Randolph, Harriet,254.Raphael'sSchool of Athens,141.Rashdall, quoted,55,56.Rasponi, Donna Felice,60.Rathbun, Mary J.,254.Recognitions of Clementtranslated by Margaret Gibson,330footnote.Red Cross, nurses of,308.Reduction and Arrangement in the Form of Catalogue, in Zones, of All the Star-clusters and Nebulæ Observed by Sir W. Herschel in His Sweeps, by Caroline Herschel,186.Réflexions sur le Bonheur, by Émilie du Châtelet,153.Regimen Santatis Salernitanum,282.Regiomontanus,170.Reinhardt, Anna Barbara,154.Renaissance,309,310;women poets of,7;dates of,54-56;women and education during,54-75;in Italy,55;literary exponents of,57;women of, in Italy,57-68;women and education following,76-105.Renan, in praise of Mme. Royer,246.Renaud, A.,343footnote.Renée, Duchess of Ferrara,65,66.Reni, Guido,61.Renzi, S. de,287and288,footnote.Republicof Plato,15,16.Rerum Medicarum, by Theodorus Priscianus,271.Restitution de Pluton, by Baroness de Beausoleil,238.Retzius, Prof.,124.Reuss, Dr. F. A., quoted on St. Hildegard,279.Ribera, Catherine,68.Richards, Mrs. Ellen H., sanitary chemist,217-220.Richelieu, Cardinal,88,94,239.Ringle, Chevalier,238.Ritter, Frederic,363footnote.Ritter, Karl,256.Roberval,172.Roccati, Cristina,142.Rochechouart, Elizabeth de,82.Rochechouart, Gabrielle de,82.Rohan, Anne de,82.Rohan, Marie-Eleanore de,82.Rohan, Princesse de,362.Romana, Francesca de, physician,286.Rome, ancient woman and education in,18-34;medical women in,271-274;medical faculty of,297.Ronsard, quoted,70footnote.Röntgen,223.Rosales, Isabella,145.Rossi, Giovanni Battista de,326.Rossi, Properzia de,60,298.Rousseau,413;quoted,30footnote;attitude of, toward women,92,93.Royal Agricultural Society of England,251."Royal Asiatic Society,"258.Royal Astronomical Society, Mary Somerville elected to,159;gold medal bestowed upon Caroline Herschel by,186,187;Caroline Herschel's books published by,186;Caroline Herschel elected to,188.Royal College of Science for Ireland, comparative standing of men and women in,128,129.Royal Historical and Archæological Association of Ireland,316.Royal Institution of Great Britain,228.Royal Irish Academy, election of Caroline Herschel to,189.Royal Society of Great Britain, attitude of, toward women,230,393,394.Royal Swedish Academy,228.Royer, Clemence Augustine, scientist,245-246.Rudolphine Tables, Maria Cunitz's abridgment of,171.Rümker, Mme.,191.Rusticana,356.Rutebœuf, in praise of Trotula,285.Ryssel, Professor V.,331footnote.Sabatier, Paul,359footnote.Sabbadini, quoted,59footnote.Sablière, Mme. de la,171-173.Sacred and Legendary Artby Mrs. Jameson,313,315,316.St. Andrews, University of,332.St. Augustine,212.St. Boniface,39.St. Clara,358,359,361.St. Cyr, Institut de,83,84,85.Saint-Evremond,88,390.St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby,36-39.St. Hildegard, Abbess of the Convent of St. Rupert,45-48,233-235;knowledge of astronomy of,169,170;as physician,277-281.St. Jerome,31-33;quoted,273.St. Jerome'sVulgate,357.St. John of Beverly,37.St. John's College, Cambridge, endowment of, by funds from suppressed convents,41,42.St. Lioba, Abbess of Bishopsheim,39,40.St. Nicerata, physician,272.St. Radegund, Abbess of Poitiers,36.St. Theodosia, physician,272.Salerno,53,54footnotes,296.Salerno, University of,281-288;women as students and professors of medicine in,80,281-288.Salons, French,88-92.Samarium, discovery of,219.Sand, George,246,264.Sanitation, study of, by Mrs. Ellen H. Richards,217-220.Sapienza, chair in, offered to Marta Marchina,78.Sappho,5-8,


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