A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Dumee, Joan

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DUMEE, JOAN,

Was born in Paris, and instructed, from her earliest infancy, in belles-lettres. She married very young, and was scarcely seventeen when her husband was killed in Germany, at the head of a company he commanded. She employed the liberty her widowhood gave her in ardent application to study, devoting herself especially to astronomy. She published, in 1680, at Paris, a quarto volume under the title of "Discourses of Copernicus, touching the Mobility of the Earth, by Madame Joanne Dumée, of Paris." She explains with clearness the three motions attributed to the earth, and the arguments that establish or militate against the system of Copernicus.