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with his daughter, then eight years old. At Lyon, Juliana continued her studies, devoting nine hours daily to rhetoric, dialectics, ethics, and music. At the age of 12, she publicly defended her theses in ethics and dialectics summa cum laude. She then applied herself to physics, metaphysics and
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According to some sources, Morell was the first woman to receive a university degree, but the circumstances are unclear. Juliana Morell "defended theses" in 1606 or 1607 in Lyon or maybe
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speaks of her "as the fourth of the Graces and the tenth Muse". He also says "that she was an angel who publicly taught all the sciences from the professorial chairs and in schools".
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