Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat and writer, best known for the biography of her husband, published in 1667.
Born: 1623
Died: December 15th, 1673
Categories: English people, Biographers, Authors, English poets, 17th century deaths
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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
If Atomes are as small, as small can bee, They must in quantity of Matter all agree: