Louise du Pierry

Louise du Pierry or Dupiery (Elisabeth Louise Felicite Pourri de la Madeleine) (1746 – fl. 1807), was a French astronomer and professor.

Louise du Pierry was a student of Jerome de Lalande in 1779. She was a member of the academy L'Academie de Sciense de Béziers.

In 1789, she became the first female professor at the Sorbonne university in Paris as the leader of the Course d'astrologie ouvert pur les dames et mis a leur portée for female students. She predicted eclipses, computed the length of day and night and assembled refraction tables. She published her own work in 1799.

The year of her death is unknown, but she was still alive in 1807. Jerome De Lalande included her in his work Astronomie des Dames (1790), where she is mentioned as an ideal for a female intellectual.

See also

• Nicole-Reine Lepaute

References

• Chronology of women's history by Kirstin Olsen
• http://lerma7.obspm.fr/IYA09/doc/Calendrier-Ast-Femmes.pdf

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