Jeanne Dumée's expressed her feminist views during the time period in which she lived, as well as her hopes for women in her field of study as well as many others, as she believed that women were just as capable of making scientific studies, research, and change just as well as any man. She believed that women were not lesser than men in any fashion, especially when it came to getting an education and making a name for themselves, and this sentiment was fairly clearly noted in her writing to women in her text. During Dumée's lifetime, there was quite a bit of gender inequality, especially in her field. Men dominated the field of astronomy and Dumée had been told that the work involved in astronomy was "too delicate work for persons of her sex.” As previously stated, despite this, she was not deterred from her work or study, and went on to publish her book and become famous for her work's clarity on the subject matter within its pages. Aubin, David (2016). Jeanne Dumée as Astronomer and Woman in Seventeenth-Century France: The Myth and Her Lost Voice. "Journal for the History of Astronomy", 2016, Vol. 47(3) 231-255 (). Oglive, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in science: antiquity through the nineteenth century: a  biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Tooke, William (1789). A new and general biographical dictionary: containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation;  particularly the British and Irish; from the earliest accounts of time to the present period. G. and J. Robinson. Lienhard, John H. "No. 407: Women in Astronomy." No. 407: Women in Astronomy. Accessed  April 29, 2016. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi407.htm. "European Life in the Eighteenth Century - Family Life and Education." European Life in the  Eighteenth. Accessed April 29, 2016. http://www.historydoctor.net/Advanced Placement  European History/Notes/european_life_in_the_eighteenth_century_family_life.htm. "The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center." Discovery Circumstances:  Numbered Minor Planets (10001)-(15000). Accessed April 29, 2016.  http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/NumberedMPs010001.html.