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From her universal accomplishments she was called the Silesian Pallas, and the publication of her work, ''Urania propitia'' (Oels, 1650), a simplification of the Rudolphine Tables , gained her a European reputation. It was composed at the village of Lugnitz , close by the convent of Olobok (Posen), where, with her husband, she had taken refuge at the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War , and was dedicated to the Emperor Frederick III . ''Urania propitia'' provided new tables, new ephemera, and a more elegant solution to "Kepler's Problem," which involves the maximum density of spheres in a three-dimensional space. The author became a widow in 1661, and died at Pitschen on the 24th of August 1664. See AG Kästner , ''Geschichte der Mathematik'', iv. 430 (1800); Nicolaus Henelius , ''Silesiographia renovata'', cap. vi. p. 684; JC Eberti 's ''Schlesiens wohlgelehrtes Frauenzimmer'', p. 25 (Breslau, 1727); ''Allgemeine deutsche Biographie'' (Schiminelpfenning). SEE ALSO
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