Mary Somerville : Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind / Kathryn A. Neeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neeley, Kathryn A. (Kathryn Angelyn), 1954-

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Cambridge Science Biographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women scientists--Great Britain--Biography.

Women scientists.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Contents:

Key to Parenthetical References to the Works of Mary Somerville xv

Prologue: Perceiving What Others Do Not Perceive: The "Peculiar Illumination" of the Female Mind 1

1 Head among the Stars, Feet Firm upon the Earth: The Problem of Categorizing Mary Somerville 11

2 Creating a Room of Her Own in the World of Science: How Mary Fairfax Became the Famous Mrs. Somerville 45

3 Science as Exact Calculation and Elevated Meditation: Mechanism of the Heavens (1831), "Preliminary Dissertation" (1832), and On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834) 86

4 The Earth, the Sea, the Air, and Their Inhabitants: Physical Geography (1848) and On Molecular and Microscopic Science (1869) 130

5 Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville: Personal Recollections (1873) 169

6 Memory and Mary Somerville: In the Public Eye and Historical Memory 199

Epilogue: Science, Voice, and Vision 238.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511613326

9780521622998

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