Mme. Agassiz
Author information
- Full name: Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz
- Birth: 1822 - Boston, Estados Unidos
- Decease: 1907 - Arlington, Estados Unidos
Description
- Cientista, educadora, escritora, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (nascida Elizabeth Cabot Cary) foi a segunda esposa de Louis Agassiz, com quem se casou em 1850 após o falecimento de sua primeira esposa. Ela trabalhou em colaboração com seu marido nas pesquisas cientificas por ele realizadas.
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- WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION. Wikipédia: a enciclopédia livre. Conteúdo enciclopédico de autoria coletiva. Disponível em: https://www.wikipedia.org.
- UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO. Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin Digital. Disponível em: http://www.brasiliana.usp.br/.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cabot_Agassiz
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; née Cary; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz. Agassiz traveled to Brazil with her husband from 1865 to 1866, and on the Hassler expedition from 1871 to 1872; of the second, she wrote an account for the Atlantic Monthly. She published A First Lesson in Natural History (Boston, 1859) and edited Geological Sketches (1866).
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