Margaret Cavendish#Margaret
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#Margaret
Margaret Cavendish · 1623–1673
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“The duchess mocked for centuries as "Mad Madge" was the first Englishwoman to publish natural philosophy under her own name — and her supposedly eccentric doctrines, thinking matter and the distrust of instruments among them, now read as startlingly ahead of their time.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Everything that exists is matter — but matter is not dead machinery. It moves itself, perceives, and knows, in degrees, all the way down.”
From the book
- The Great PhilosophersMargaret Cavendish is Chapter 132 of Vol 4, The Age of Reason & Enlightenment.
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