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Publication Name
Queen Of Science
Title
Queen Of Science
Subtitle
Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville
Contributor
Dorothy McMillan (Introduction by)
ISBN-10
1841951366
EAN
9781841951362
ISBN
9781841951362
Edition
Main
Release Year
2001
Release Date
30/09/2001
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Book Title
Queen of Science : Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville
Item Length
7.8in
Publisher
Canongate Books
Publication Year
2001
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.1in
Author
Mary Somerville
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Topic
General, Women's Studies, Science & Technology
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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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 Mécanique céleste 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.

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Publisher
Canongate Books
ISBN-10
1841951366
ISBN-13
9781841951362
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112943351

Product Key Features

Book Title
Queen of Science : Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville
Author
Mary Somerville
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Women's Studies, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz

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Copyright Date
2001
Dewey Decimal
509.2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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