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Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville Paperback - 2001
by Mary Somerville; Introduction by Dorothy McMillan
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- Title Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville
- Author Mary Somerville; Introduction by Dorothy McMillan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Canongate Books, Edinburgh
- Date September 30, 2001
- ISBN 9781841951362 / 1841951366
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 1.3 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 3.30 cm)
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- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code 509
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UK: Canongate, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 1.3 x 4.9 x 7.5 inches. 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?anique c?este 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…
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