INDEX 



445 



Clemence Beyer's books on, 

 245. 



Phryne, 11. 



Physica, 233, 234. 



Physica, by St. Hildegard, 278. 



Physical Geography, by Mary 

 Somerville, 160, 211. 



Physical power, relation of, to 

 mental energy, arguments 

 based on, 111-115, 127. 



Physicians, women, in Italy, 295- 

 300; American attitude to- 

 ward, 300-304; See also Medi- 

 cal women. 



Physics, women in, 197-213; 

 Clemence Eoyer's books on, 

 245. 



Physiology, vegetable, Florence 

 Patterson 's work in, 254. 



Pierry, Mme. du, 178, 179. 



Pindar, defeated by Corinna, 6. 



Pio Albergo Trivulzio, Maria 

 Gaetana Agnesi in charge of, 

 149. 



Pioneer Work in Opening the 

 Medical Profession to Women, 

 by Elizabeth Blackwell, 302 

 footnote. 



Pisa, Leonardo da, 141. 



Pisan, Christine de, 53, 106-108; 

 on intellectual capacity of wo- 

 men, 134, 135. 



Piscopia, Elena Cornaro, of Ven- 

 ice, 77, 142, 143. 



Planisphere, invention of, by 

 Hypatia, 140, 200. 



Platearius, John, 284. 



Plato, 10, 11, 137; in praise of 

 Sappho, 5; quoted, 11; influ- 

 ence of Aspasia on, 13, 16; on 

 education of women, 15, 16; 

 on the seclusion of Athenian 



women, 26, 27; ideal of, of 

 equal rights for women, 399. 



Pliny, 270; quoted, 28, 29. 



Plotinus, 200. 



Plutarch, 22, 167; quoted, 4 foot- 

 note, 95; in praise of Cornelia, 

 26. 



Poetry, achievements of women 

 in, in ancient Greece, 5-7; in 

 ancient Eome, 28; in the Re- 

 naissance, 61, 62. 



Pogson, Miss, in the Observatory 

 of Madras, India, 196. 



Poisson, 154. 



Polignac, Cardinal, 204. 



Politian, 63, 73. 



Political economy, Clemence 

 Royer's work in, 245. 



Polonium, discovery of, by Mme. 

 Curie, 223. 



Polydamna, physician, 267, 268. 



Pompeii, excavations of Queen 

 Caroline at, 311, 312. 



Pope, 98, 113. 



Porcia, 23. 



Portico, the admission of women 

 to, 10. 



Portinari, Beatrice, 357. 



Poupard, Mary E., 347 footnote. 



Pratique des Accouchements, by 

 Mme. La Chapelle, 294. 



Praxilla, 6, 17. 



Praxiteles, 11. 



Precieuses Ridicules, of Moliere, 

 30, 85-87, 172. 



Priestly, 216. 



Primitive Athens as Described by 

 Thucydides, by Jane E. Har- 

 rison, 332 footnote. 



Princesse de Cleves, 91. 



Principia, Newton's, Emilie du 

 Chatelet's translation of, 152, 

 175, 176, 201, 



