Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers.
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Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
was a considerable time employed in writing this book, Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 166 |
Textual Features | Mary Somerville | MS
dedicated the text to her longtime friend John Herschel
. In thirty-three chapters, the book covers the concepts foundational to a study of physical geography: the earth and the solar system; the formation of... |
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 | Astronomer Sir John Herschel
reviewed Mechanism of the Heavens, by MS
, in the Quarterly Review. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 86 |
Literary responses | Mary Somerville | The Athenæum declared MS
's On the Connexion of the Physical Scienceswith the exception of Sir John Herschel
's treatises, the most valuable and most pleasing work of science that has been published within the century. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 136 |
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... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | After conducting a series of trials which involved focussing sunlight on a steel needle, MS
concluded (incorrectly) that the violet rays of the solar spectrum appeared to produce a magnetising effect. The paper was timely... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | ES
's circle of friends included Sir William Grove
(inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville
, lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley
, astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy
, Sir John Herschel |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | CH
announced in a letter from Hanover to her nephew John
in England the completion of her Catalogue of . . . Star-Clusters and Nebulae. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 202-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Herschel | Her nephew John, born in 1792, grew up to become Sir John Herschel
, an astronomer perhaps as famous as his father (let alone his aunt). She helped him by recording the first sweeps that... |
Occupation | Caroline Herschel | Astronomical observation being impossible in the city, CH
worked at her papers from the past, this time, at her nephew John
's request, compiling her catalogue of nebulae. When her nephew set out for the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Herschel | She had begun working on this, at John
's behest, about a year after her return to Hanover. In August 1823 it was still at the planning stage. A year later she was hard at work. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 200-2 |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | During her last years in HanoverCH
wrote many letters that survive and many writings in personal biography, autobiography and family history. Her own early Day-Books and Sweep-Books were pressed into service for these later... |
Literary responses | Caroline Herschel | As early as May 1827 her nephew John
read her autobiographical account of her discovery years, and responded that she underestimated her own part in her joint enterprise with William. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 12 |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | The same year that she began, for her nephew's wife, writing about herself, she also embarked another memoir, entitled History of the Herschels, which remained unfinished. In both these memoirs the pages on the... |
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