Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
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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.
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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
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.
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Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874.
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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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Texts
Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de. Mechanism of the Heavens. Translator Somerville, Mary, John Murray, 1831.