Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

On her first visit to Paris, she met Germaine de Staël , and formed lasting friendships with the marquise de Villette (Voltaire 's adopted daughter) and with Elizabeth Patterson (an American heiress, the abandoned...

On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...

In Paris the Somervilles met Pierre Simon Laplace , Siméon Poisson , Louis Poinsot , Émile Mathieu , François Arago , Jean-Baptiste Biot , Alexis Bouvard , Georges Cuvier , Alexander von Humboldt , and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac .

ECK continued through the later part of her life to cultivate relationships with royalty and the aristocracy, of her own nation and others. Her friendships with Lord St Vincent and with Lady Aylesbury (or Ailesbury)

Physical Geography was widely used, as a comprehensive and useful textbook, in schools and universities for some fifty years after its publication. In anticipating a regional rather than national or political approach to geography, it...

In old age CH was loaded with other honours, including honorary membership in the Royal Astronomical Society , along with Mary Somerville , in 1835. (Each woman said she felt it a particular honour to...

Paul Douglass points out that Ada Reis is a work of scholarship as well as of imagination; before writing the text, LCL had digested many recent works of travel and exploration, including those by...

HMW published a translation from the French of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland : Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America.

Publication was expected of the remainder of HMW 's translation of Humboldt 's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804.

In 1849 the fifteenth and sixteenth items in the series Small Books on Great Subjects were published, neither of them written by CFC . Thoughts and Opinions of a Statesman was a book recently published...