“ AGNESI, MARIA GAETANA (1718–1799) , Italian mathematician, linguist and philosopher, was born at Milan on the 16th of May 1718, her father being professor of mathematics in the university of Bologna. When only nine years old she had such command of Latin as to be able to publish an elaborate address in that language, maintaining that the pursuit of liberal studies was not improper for her sex. By her thirteenth year she had acquired Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German and other languages. ”

“ The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantities, and the second of the analysis of infinitesimals. A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d’Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut (1730–1814) , appeared at Paris in 1775; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson (1680–1760) , the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Masères. ”