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Mary Somerville
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Author : Kathryn A. Neeley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-10-22
Mary Somerville written by Kathryn A. Neeley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.
Queen Of Science
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Author : Mary Somerville
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2001
Queen Of Science written by Mary Somerville and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of one of Nelson's captains, and in common with most girls of her time and station she was given the kind of education which prizes gentility over ability. Nevertheless, she taught herself algebra in secret, and made her reputation in celestial mechanics with her 1831 translation of Laplace's M�canique c�leste as The Mechanism of the Heavens. As she was equally interested in art, literature and nature Somerville's lively memoirs give a fascinating picture of her life and times from childhood in Burntisland to international recognition and retirement in Naples. She tells of her friendship with Maria Edgeworth and of her encounters with Scott and Fenimore Cooper. She remembers comets and eclipses, high society in London and Paris, Charles Babbage and his calculating engine, the Risorgimento in Italy and the eruption of Vesuvius. Selected by her daughter and first published in 1973, these are the memoirs of a remarkable woman who became one of the most gifted mathematicians and scientists of the nineteenth century. Oxford's Somerville College was named after her, and the present volume, re-edited by Dorothy McMillan, draws on manuscripts owned by the college and offers the first unexpurgated edition of these revelatory writings.
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville With Selections From Her Correspondence By Her Daughter Martha Somerville
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Author : Mary Somerville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville With Selections From Her Correspondence By Her Daughter Martha Somerville written by Mary Somerville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
Mary Somerville
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
Mary Somerville written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville
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Author : Mary Somerville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville written by Mary Somerville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Women scientists categories.
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville
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Author : Mary Fairfax Somerville
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville written by Mary Fairfax Somerville and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
The life of a woman entirely devoted to her family duties and to scientific pursuits affords little scope for a biography. There are in it neither stirring events nor brilliant deeds to record; and as my Mother was strongly averse to gossip, and to revelations of private life or of intimate correspondence, nothing of the kind will be found in the following pages. It has been only after very great hesitation, and on the recommendation of valued friends, who think that some account of so remarkable and beautiful a character cannot fail to interest the public, that I have resolved to publish some detached Recollections of past times, noted down by my mother during the last years of her life, together with a few letters from eminent men and women, referring almost exclusively to her scientific works. A still smaller number of her own letters have been added, either as illustrating her opinions on events she witnessed, or else as affording some slight idea of her simple and loving disposition. Few thoughtful minds will read without emotion my mother's own account of the wonderful energy and indomitable perseverance by which, in her ardent thirst for knowledge, she overcame obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well-nigh totally debarred from education; and the almost intuitive way in which she entered upon studies of which she had scarcely heard the names, living, as she did, among persons to whom they were utterly unknown, and who disapproved of her devotion to pursuits so different from those of ordinary young girls at the end of the last century, especially in Scotland, which was far more old-fashioned and primitive than England. Nor is her simple account of her early days without interest, when, as a lonely child, she wandered by the seashore, and on the links of Burntisland, collecting shells and flowers; or spent the clear, cold nights at her window, watching the starlit heavens, whose mysteries she was destined one day to penetrate in all their profound and sublime laws, making clear to others that knowledge which she herself had acquired, at the cost of so hard a struggle.
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville
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Author : Mary Somerville
language : en
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Release Date : 1873
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville written by Mary Somerville and has been published by London : J. Murray this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Women scientists categories.
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville
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Author : Mary Somerville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Personal Recollections From Early Life To Old Age Of Mary Somerville written by Mary Somerville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Women scientists categories.
Collected Works Of Mary Somerville
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Author : Mary Somerville
language : en
Publisher: Thoemmes
Release Date : 2004-03-18
Collected Works Of Mary Somerville written by Mary Somerville and has been published by Thoemmes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-18 with History categories.
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The Ascent Of Mary Somerville In 19th Century Society
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Author : Elisabetta Strickland
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-24
The Ascent Of Mary Somerville In 19th Century Society written by Elisabetta Strickland and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-24 with Mathematics categories.
This biography traces the life and work of Mary Fairfax Somerville, whose extraordinary mathematical talent only came to light through fortuitous circumstances. Barely taught to read and write as a child, all the science she learned and mastered was self taught. In this delightful narrative the author takes up the challenge of discovering how Somerville came to be one of the most outstanding British women scientists and, furthermore, a popular writer. Particular attention is paid to the gender aspects of Somerville's success in what was, to put it mildly, a predominantly male domain.