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Marie Le Masson Le Golft (1750–1826) was a French naturalist. ==Life== Marie Le Masson Le Golft was a student of naturalist Jacques-François Dicquemare, a friend of her father, in his scientific work. She tried to publish the great work he had undertaken on molluscs, but necessary costs drove back the successive authorities. The many steps it undertook to this end put in relation with the scientists of the late eighteenth century as Lacepede, Condorcet or Daubenton. She was a teacher, and published in 1788 ''Letters on Education'' and wrote various literary works that were not published. Two of her books are still cited: the ''Balance of Nature'' (1784), where she assigns to hundreds of animals, plants and minerals, and ''Outline to a General Table of Mankind'' (1787), world map on which all peoples then known, and their characteristics are represented by symbols. Masson spent the last years of her life, poor and almost forgotten in Rouen, where she was a professor of geography and drawing. At her death, she bequeathed, to the city of Rouen, a library in which was included the collection of drawings, engravings and copper plates that were to be used in the publication of the book of ''Father Dicquemare''. She was a member of several provincial academies as well as the Royal Academy of Madrid Education, Philadelphia circle, the French Cape Town, and the Royal Society of Bilbao. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Le Masson Le Golft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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