Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat and writer, best known for the biography of her husband, published in 1667.

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• If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,
  They must in quantity of Matter all agree:
  • The weight of Atomes., The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, from her Poems, and Fancies, 1653 [a machine readable transcription]. Edited with an introduction by Leigh Tillman Partington.http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi-bin/sgml2html/wwrp.pl?act=contents&f=%2Fdata%2Fwomen_writers%2Fdata%2Fatomic.sgm

• The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded
  • Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666)