Mary Somerville Scientist

Mary Fairfax Somerville (26 December 1780 – 28 November 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was nominated to be jointly the first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society at the same time as Caroline Herschel.

Personal facts

Mary Somerville
Birth dateDecember 26, 1780
Birth place
Jedburgh
Nationality
Scotland
Date of deathNovember 28, 1872
Place of death
Italy , Naples

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Scientist

Field of study
Polymath
Science journalism

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External resources

  1. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=AnoMary.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
  2. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/somer.htm
  3. http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astronomy-resource-guides/women-in-astronomy-an-introductory-resource-guide
  4. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/somerville/somerville.html
  5. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27747