MEMOIRS OF Eminent Female Writers. AGNESI. MARIA GATEANA AGNESI, an Italian lady, celebrated for her learning, was born at Milan, on the 8th of June, 1718. So profound were her mathematical attainments, that when, in 1750, her father, a learned professor in the university of Bologna, was unable to continue his lectures, owing to the infirmity of his health, she obtained permission from the Pope to fill his chair. At the early age of nineteen, she supported one hundred and ninetyone theses, which were published in 1738, under the title of "Propositiones Philosophicæ;" and she was also mistress of the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, and Spanish languages. Her principal work, entitled "Instituzioni Analatiche," 1748, 2 vols. 4to, was translated in part, by Antelmy, into French, under the title of "Traités Elementaires du Calcul differentiel, et du Calcul integral," 1775, 8vo., and into English by the Rev. John Colson, Lucasian professor of mathematics in the univer A |