Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1646)

Elena Cornaro Piscopia

Venetian philosopher (1646–1684)

Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia or Elena Lucrezia Corner, 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…