Deaths on July 26

Elena Cornaro Piscopia

Died on July 26, 1684

Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)

Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (US: , (Italian: [korˈnɛr]; 5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684), also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

References

Elena Cornaro Piscopia

Choose Another Date

Events on 1684

10 Dec

De motu corporum in gyrum
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.