Somerville, Mary Fairfax
Scottish-born English Mathematics Writer 1780–1872
Mary Fairfax Somerville was called the "Queen of Nineteenth-Century Science" by the London Morning ...
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Mary Somerville
1780-1872
Scottish mathematician and scientific writer who published papers in physics and became well known for her 1831 translation of Pierre Laplace's Mécanique Cél...
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Known as the "Queen of nineteenth century science," Mary Somerville (1780-1872) explained the leading scientific ideas of her day in terms that much of the educated public could understand. Though she...
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