Society restricted women for centuries to never aspire to be more than dependent on a man. Marie Thiroux d'Arconville, states in Document 12 that: "Women should be satisfied with the power that their grace and beauty give them...." But many females of this time period were not satisfied, were not happy with being just a wife and mother, and longed for something to advance themselves in. Finally in the 17th and 18th centuries intellectual women began to shake off their shackles from the male sex and grasp onto the Scientific Method with eager hands. Although most men and women objected to this new idea of the 16th century, several scholars noticed that women were capable and many times surpassed their male counterparts in all areas of science. The old paradigm still persisted throughout this time of struggle for women and in the following paragraphs, I will discuss the main...