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La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames - Paul Ferguson - 08-29-2023
"par damoiselle M.M." (Marie Meurdrac)
"Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 – 1680) was a French chemist and alchemist known for writing La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames [Easy Chemistry for Women]. It is through this book that her name has survived to the present day, and scholars have argued that this was the first work on chemistry or alchemy by a woman since that of Maria the Jewess in the late classical period. Historian Lucia Tosi described Meurdrac as the first woman to publish a book on early chemistry. Though she was reluctant to write, concerned about criticism from those who didn't believe women should receive an education, she was a proto-feminist, and believed that "minds have no sex."
https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_74616/mode/2up
https://scientificwomen.net/women/meurdrac-marie-68