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Author : Elizabeth Chambers Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789024724338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840 written by Elizabeth Chambers Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Chambers Patterson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science written by Elizabeth Chambers Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E.C. Patterson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400968396
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840 written by E.C. Patterson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them. This group, which never numbered more than a mere handful in comparison to the whole population, may rightly be characterized as 'scientific'. They and their successors came to occupy an increasingly important place in the intellectual, educational, and developing economic life of the nation. Well before the arrival of mid-century, natural philosophers and inventors were generally hailed as a source of national pride and of national prestige. Scientific society is a feature of nineteenth-century British life, the best being found in London, in the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a few scattered provincial centres.
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Connection of the Physical Sciences written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn A. Neeley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626729
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville written by Kathryn A. Neeley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.
Author : Mary Somerville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752431725
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences written by Mary Somerville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Collected Works of Mary Somerville: On molecular and microscopic science I written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book On Molecular and Microscopic Science written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mechanism of the Heavens written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Chapman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319093991
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville and the World of Science written by Allan Chapman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with a scientific brother or father. She was active in astronomy, one of the most demanding areas of science of the day, and flourished in the unique British tradition of Grand Amateurs, who paid their own way and were not affiliated with any academic institution. Mary Somerville was to science what Jane Austen was to literature and Frances Trollope to travel writing. Allan Chapman’s vivid account brings to light the story of an exceptional woman, whose achievements in a field dominated by men deserve to be very widely known.
Author : Mary Somerville
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Queen of Science written by Mary Somerville and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Taliah Drayak
Publisher : Pen & Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781526731975
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville written by Taliah Drayak and published by Pen & Sword History. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the Queen of nineteenth-century science, Mary Somerville was a formidable force in the fields of mathematics and science. This new biography celebrates her as a pioneer and groundbreaking influence. For her input, she was esteemed in her day and remains a beacon for new generations of scientists. Beyond the scientific realm, she holds iconic status for breaking new ground in the fight for women's rights - her name was the first to appear on the original petition sent to Parliament to allow women the right to vote and she was a vocal advocate for women's equality. At a time when women were barred entry from most influential institutions, her induction as the first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society was truly extraordinary. Amongst her scientific achievements, her work led to the discovery of the planet Neptune. Sir David Brewster, inventor of the kaleidoscope, wrote that she was 'the most extraordinary woman in Europe - a mathematician of the very first rank'. She features on the new Scottish £10 note, after winning a public vote and defeating competition from esteemed rivals such as Thomas Telford and James Clark Maxwell. This new biography explores every facet of a fascinating life, the legacy of which continues to be felt to this day.
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)
Download or read book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabetta Strickland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319491938
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society written by Elisabetta Strickland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Personal Recollections from Early Life to Old Age of Mary Somerville written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Secord
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620331X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Visions of Science written by James A. Secord and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. There was widespread social unrest, and debates raged regarding education, the lives of the working class, and the new industrial, machine-governed world. At the same time, modern science emerged in Europe in more or less its current form, as new disciplines and revolutionary concepts, including evolution and the vastness of geologic time, began to take shape. In Visions of Science, James A. Secord offers a new way to capture this unique moment of change. He explores seven key books—among them Charles Babbage’s Reflections on the Decline of Science, Charles Lyell’s Principles ofGeology, Mary Somerville’s Connexion of the Physical Sciences, and Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus—and shows how literature that reflects on the wider meaning of science can be revelatory when granted the kind of close reading usually reserved for fiction and poetry. These books considered the meanings of science and its place in modern life, looking to the future, coordinating and connecting the sciences, and forging knowledge that would be appropriate for the new age. Their aim was often philosophical, but Secord shows it was just as often imaginative, projective, and practical: to suggest not only how to think about the natural world but also to indicate modes of action and potential consequences in an era of unparalleled change. Visions of Science opens our eyes to how genteel ladies, working men, and the literary elite responded to these remarkable works. It reveals the importance of understanding the physical qualities of books and the key role of printers and publishers, from factories pouring out cheap compendia to fashionable publishing houses in London’s West End. Secord’s vivid account takes us to the heart of an information revolution that was to have profound consequences for the making of the modern world.
