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The other Enlightenment of a Catholic woman mathematician

Massimo Mazzotti: The world of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, xxii+217pp, $51.95 HB

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Cavazza, M. The other Enlightenment of a Catholic woman mathematician. Metascience 21, 313–316 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9632-3

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