Jeanne Dumée

Jeanne Dumée (* around 1680–1685 in Paris ; † 1706 ) was a French astronomer and author . She campaigned for the right to study for women.

Jeanne Dumée received a good education in arts and literature during her childhood and early teens. She got married early. She was widowed at the age of 17. It was around this time that she became interested in astronomical research . Her most important work is entitled Entretiens sur l'opinion de Copernic touchant la mobilité de la terre . In this work she succeeds, based on observations of Venus and the moons of Jupiter , to depict the movement of the earth and thus to reinforce the theories of Copernicus and Galileo . The Journal des Savants published a table of contents for this book. The original is kept in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris.

Jeanne Dumée also turned to her sex comrades with the request that they also turn to research. She argues that women are just as capable of study as men are if they face the effort involved. She denies a difference between female and male thinking. With this view she found herself at odds with the zeitgeist of the time.

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• Entretien sur l'opinion de Copernic touchant la mobilité de la terre . Manuscript No. 19941 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , 52 pp.

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• Annette Kuhn (Ed.): The Chronicle of Women . Chronik Verlag, Berlin 1992, page 280 ISBN 978-3-611-00195-6
• Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , page 89.