Overview: Showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, an important but neglected woman philosopher.The first collection of studies on Elisabeth of Bohemia in English.Provides an interdisciplinary panarama of Elisabeth of BThis book showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), one of the foremost female minds of the 17th century. Best known today for her important correspondence with the philosopher René Descartes, Elisabeth was famous in her own time for her learning, philosophical acumen, and mathematical brilliance. She was also well-connected in the seventeenth-century intellectual ci
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