Heloise
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Héloïse, variously Héloïse d'Argenteuil or Héloïse du Paraclet, was a French nun, philosopher, writer, scholar, and abbess.
Jean-Baptiste Goyet, Héloïse et Abailard, oil on copper, c. 1829
Heloise takes the habit at Argenteuil.
Heloise at the Abbey of the Paraclete by Jean-Baptiste Mallet
Adelard of Bath
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Adelard of Bath was a 12th-century English natural philosopher. He is known both for his original works and for translating many important Greek scientific works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy, a
Adelard of Bath, teaching illuminated by Virgil Master (c. 1400) in the Regulae abaci manuscript SCA 1
The frontispiece of an Adelard of Bath Latin translation of Euclid's Elements, British Library manuscript 275, c. 14th century