This is a historical list, intended to deal with the time period where it is believed that women working in science were rare. For this reason, this list ends with the 20th century. == Antiquity == Aemilia (c. 300 CE–363 CE), Gallo-Roman physician Aglaonike (2nd century BCE), woman astronomer in Ancient Greece Agnodike (4th century BCE), first woman physician to practice legally in Athens Andromache (mid-6th century), Egyptian physician Arete of Cyrene (5th–4th centuries BCE), Greek natural a…