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Anna van Schurman spent a life involved with philosophers of her time as well as with a range of scholars, artists, theologians, and while her intelligence was acclaimed in Europe and abroad, her work was not mentioned in the traditional canon. As a woman not permitted to attend university and thus to engage in academic affairs officially, she chose to present her feminist epistemology in the form of an academic dissertation, her works being read by academicians of highest regard, e.g. Descartes and Gassendi, who was chair of mathematics in Paris.
the access to Minerva should not usually be open to us
Anna van Schurman
the Dutch Minerva...the rival of these illustrious women in eloquence...possesses...all the liberal and noble arts
Marie de Gournay
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Anna von Schurman Bibliography
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An Ethiopian Grammar
De Vitae Humanae Termino 4to, Leyden (1646 Paris). A Stoical response to Beverwyck's concerns over the role of a physician in matters of life and death.
Whether the Study of Letters is Fitting for a Christian Woman? (The Learned Maid) 8vo Leyden: Elzevir.
Opuscula (new edition in 1794 Leipzig: Dorothea Loeber)
The Learned Maid. London: John Radmayne, 1659. (translated from original Dutch 1641).
Eukleria. Altona
Mysterium magnum oder Grosses Geheimnis. Wesel.
Uitbreiding over de Brie eerste Capittels van Genesis. Groningen.
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Dykeman, T.B. (1999). Anna Van Schurman (1607–1679). In: Dykeman, T.B. (eds) The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3400-4_4
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