Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
19, 21-4
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Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | 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
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 19, 21-4 |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | MS
and her husband
, at the behest of a group of Cambridge's mathematical scholars impressed with her work on Laplace
, arrived at Cambridge University
for a week-long stay. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983. 91 |
Occupation | Mary Somerville | She purchased a significant collection of advanced mathematical texts—primarily recent French works—as a basis for her studies. She developed a useful mathematical correspondence with Wallace, and she engaged his brother John
to read Pierre Simon Laplace |
Textual Production | Mary Somerville | On behalf of the Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge
, Henry, Lord Brougham
, wrote to MS
's husband
to propose that she translate into English the advanced French astronomical mathematics of Laplace
's Méchanique Céleste. 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, 1987, pp. 208 - 16. 211, 214 Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Somerville, MarthaEditor , Roberts Brothers, 1874. 161-2 |
Textual Production | Mary Somerville | John Murray
of London published Mechanism of the Heavens, MS
's popular rendering of Pierre Simon Laplace
's seminal astronomical text Méchanique Céleste. An e-text of this book, with an appendix of some... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Somerville | This explanatory text introduced Laplace
's Méchanique Céleste, provided a summary of French analysis, and simplified explanations of the principles of French astronomy. MS
's Preliminary Dissertation was printed in London, and was... |
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