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This website is designed to introduce students to Marguerite de Roberval and the sixteenth-century texts she inspired. The site includes extensive bibliographies, teaching ideas, lists of modern and Renaissance versions of her story, information about Captain Roberval and his company, early exploration of Canada, …

This website is designed to introduce students to Marguerite de Roberval and the sixteenth-century texts she inspired. The site includes extensive bibliographies, teaching ideas, lists of modern and Renaissance versions of her story, information about Captain Roberval and his company, early exploration of Canada, images, and other media.

The Marguerite de Roberval website is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA) International license.

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Illustration of Marguerite de Roberval on the island signaling a ship in the distance.
Illustration from Richard Cortambert’s History of Travel. Caption: “Marguerite de Roberval attracts a ship with her signals.” (Image has no known copyright restrictions. Source: The British Library on Flickr.)
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