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#OnThisDay in #history - in 1664, Maria Cunitz died around age 53. She was a leading #mathematician and #astronomer and was well respected in her own lifetime. An all around academic, in 1650, Maria published her Urania Propitia (in both Latin and German) which both simplified and corrected Kepler's Rudolphine Tables of 1627. Because of her contributions, a crater on Venus and a minor planet were named after her.
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A statue memorial of Maria Cunitz in Poland. She is a metal statue, sitting on a bench, with her book title on a plaque on her lap.