Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville

by Mary Somerville

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841951366
• ISBN13: 9781841951362
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.6"