““In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you . This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded. { Explaining her use of a male pseudonym in a letter to Carl Friedrich Gauss , 1807 }””
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