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Agnesi, Maria Gaetana

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician well known and renowned in most of Europe, puts order among different treatises on infinitesimal calculus and publishes what becomes the reference manual for scholars of mathematical analysis; on reaching fame, she gave up academic honors and appointments and devotes all her remaining life to charitable work (Fig. 1).

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“Maria Gaetana Agnesi”. (Sesti and Moro (2018), Scienziate nel tempo. 100 biografie, Milano, Ledizioni)

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  1. Libera Università delle Donne, Milan, Italy

    Sara Sesti

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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  2. Dept. of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University Dept. Philosophy & Moral Sci, Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

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  1. Institut für Humanwissenschaften, Philosophie, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Deutschland

    Ruth Hagengruber

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Sesti, S. (2020). Agnesi, Maria Gaetana. In: Jalobeanu, D., Wolfe, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_431-1

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