Mary Somerville (Pocket)
avKathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville, Kathryn A. Neeley
ISBN: 9780521626729 - UTGIVEN: 2001-10In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780?1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her gender identity and by creating rich, readable, a[...]
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age (Pocket)
avMary Somerville, Martha Somerville, Mary Somerville
ISBN: 9781108013659 - UTGIVEN: 2010-05These Personal Recollections contain the memoirs and a selection of the correspondence of the nineteenth-century polymath Mary Somerville (1780-1872). The book was first published in 1873, a year after Mary's death, by her daughter Martha, who wrote brief introductions to the text. Mary Somerville i[...]
Seduced by Logic: Emilie Du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (Inbunden)
avRobyn Arianrhod
ISBN: 9780199931613 - UTGIVEN: 2012-11-22
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (Pocket)
avMary Somerville
ISBN: 9781108005197 - UTGIVEN: 2009-07Mary Somerville (1780-1872) would have been a remarkable woman in any age, but as an acknowledged leading mathematician and astronomer at a time when the education of most women was extremely restricted, her achievement was extraordinary. Laplace famously told her that 'There have been only three wo[...]
