Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Deborah Norris Logan | George was grandson of James Logan
, a wealthy Philadelphian fur trader, scientist and bibliophile. In England on a visit at the time of an eclipse of the sun on 22 May 1724, James wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bathsua Makin | Her father, Henry Reginald
, was a schoolmaster in the parish of St Mary Axe, London, an author, and a friend of the poet Michael Drayton
. He was reasonably prosperous, intellectually active, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | Captain Frederick Marryat
, FM
's father, was a distinguished naval officer renowned for conspicuous gallantry, a Fellow of the Royal Society
and member of the Légion d'Honneur
, a spectacular success as a novelist... |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She had lost her brother to smallpox, and narrowly escaped herself. She probably went to Turkey primed with accounts which had reached the Royal Society
in London of the Turkish practice of inoculation, and determined... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary More | Her son, Richard Waller
, was an artist, poet, and natural philosopher or scientist. He served as Secretary to the Royal Society
from 1687 to 1709, and edited posthumous works by Robert Hooke
. Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 108, 109 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary More | MM
' daughter, Elizabeth
, was seventeen when she was married, on 17 April 1680, to Alexander Pitfield
, a close friend and associate of her brother. Pitfield was treasurer to the Royal Society
from... |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
Occupation | Sir Isaac Newton | Isaac Newton
was elected President of the Royal Society
. Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cambridge University Press. 19: 590 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Sir Isaac Newton | The telescope brought him fame and an invitation to join the Royal Society
, though it also brought an acrimonious controversy with Robert Hooke
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Nihell | By 1754 she was back in London with her husband, who was apparently the James Nihell
, surgeon-apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society
, from a distinguished medical family, who died on 1 June... |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | RP
has seen her commitment to poetry as including a commitment to encouraging and instructing readers of it. Invited by the Poetry Society
to stand for election as its Chair, she was persuaded to do... |
Publishing | Mary Somerville | The results of MS
's first experimental investigation of the connection between light and magnetism were presented to the Royal Society
by William Somerville
; they later appeared in the Society's Philosophical Transactions. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 213 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 47 |
Publishing | Mary Somerville | After conducting a set of experiments on the effect of sunlight on vegetable juices, MS
sent a report of her method and results to John Herschel
, who presented her findings to the Royal Society
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 213, 214 |
Reception | Mary Somerville | The Royal Society of London
commissioned Sir Francis Chantrey
to sculpt MS
's bust for their Great Hall. Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 175 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 89 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution
, and took lessons in... |
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