75/2239 Germain, S. Considérations générales sur l'état des sciences et des lettres, Aux différentes époques de leur culture. Paris, Imprimerie de Lachevardiere, 1833, 102p., orig. wr.

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= Posthumously printed essay by Sophie Germain, France's greatest female mathematician. DSB V, p.375f: "The État des sciences et des lettres, which was praised by Auguste Comte, is an extremely scholarly development of the theme of unity of thought, that is, the idea that there always will be no basic difference between the sciences and the humanities with respect to their motivation, their methodology, and their cultural importance."