Mary Somerville : science, illumination, and the female mind /

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Annotation In 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. Her scientific writings contributed to one of the most important cultural projects of Victorian B...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Neeley, Kathryn A. (Kathryn Angelyn), 1954-
Other Authors: Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Cambridge science biographies.
Subjects:
Somerville, Mary, > 1780-1872.
Somerville, Mary.
Women scientists > Great Britain > Biography.
SCIENCE > Essays.
SCIENCE > Nanoscience.
SCIENCE > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Women scientists.
Great Britain.
Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) > Andre fag
Biographies.
Biografieën (vorm)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Head among the stars, feet firm upon the earth: the problem of categorizing Mary Somerville
  • Creating a room of her own in the world of science: how Mary Fairfax became the famous Mrs. Somerville
  • Science as exact calculation and elevated meditation: Mechanism of the heavens (1931), Preliminary dissertation (1832), and On the connexion of the physical sciences (1834)
  • The earth, the sea, the air, and their inhabitants: physical geography (1848) and On molecular and microscopic science (1869)
  • Personal recollections (1973): Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville
  • Memory and Mary Somerville: in the public eye and historical memory.

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