Louise du Pierry
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Louise du Pierry or Dupiery (Elisabeth Louise Felicite Pourri de la Madeleine) (1746 - fl. 1807), was a French astronomer
and professor
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Louise du Pierry was a student of Jerome de Lalande in 1779. She was a member of the academy L'Academie de Sciense de Béziers.
In 1789, she became the first female professor at the Sorbonne
university in Paris as the leader of the Course d'astrologie ouvert pur les dames et mis a leur portée for female students. She predicted eclipses, computed the length of day and night and assembled refraction tables. She published her own work in 1799.
The year of her death is unknown, but she was still alive in 1807. Jerome De Lalande included her in his work Astronomie des Dames (1790), where she is mentioned as an ideal for a female intellectual.
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
and professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
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Louise du Pierry was a student of Jerome de Lalande in 1779. She was a member of the academy L'Academie de Sciense de Béziers.
In 1789, she became the first female professor at the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
university in Paris as the leader of the Course d'astrologie ouvert pur les dames et mis a leur portée for female students. She predicted eclipses, computed the length of day and night and assembled refraction tables. She published her own work in 1799.
The year of her death is unknown, but she was still alive in 1807. Jerome De Lalande included her in his work Astronomie des Dames (1790), where she is mentioned as an ideal for a female intellectual.