Margret Lucas Cavendish

            Another woman that I researched was Margret Lucas Cavendish. Despite just being a scientist, she was a philosopher, poet, fiction writer, an avid reader and a playwright. Margret was born in 1623 in Colchester, Essex. She had no way to get a formal education, but she had access to a scholarly library and that served as her schooling. She was very smart and she had a brother, John, that was a very established scholar. He was a student of law, a philosopher, and a scientist working on natural sciences. John served as her go between where she could talk to him about things that she had questions about and it never served her wrong and she was very welcoming in his views and his opinions. She married William Cavendish and he was a supporter of her views as well. He published some of her ideas in the books that he would create and She finally got her much needed recognition in 1667 when she got an extremely rare invitation to attend a meeting of the Royal Society, a group of male peers who got together and shared views and ideas. The thing that Margret Cavendish was most centered aroud was the philosophy that everything in the universe was completely material. She didn't believe in any one God or spiritual deity and she was also the "founder" of the growing belief that humans were masters of nature. She was a big figure in the world of science and human nature and thought and I'm sure that she inpired many women to do the same.



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