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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS FROM EARLY LIFE TO OLD AGE OF MARY SOMERVILLE by Somerville, Martha - 1874
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Roberts Brothers , 1874. 377pp. Green hardback, corner tips bumped, rubbing along edges and spine tips, owner name on front end page, few pencil marks in text, Life of Mary Somerville who was a "Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was the second woman scientist to receive recognition in the United Kingdom after Caroline Herschel",. Hard Cover. Good +.
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Boston, Massachusetts: Roberts Brothers, 1874. With Selections from her Correspondence. First US Edition. 377 pp. Previous owner's inscription on front fly-leaf. Brown endpapers, with torn edges on ffep. Brown cloth with black titles. Three corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn, edges and spine darkened. VG. First Edition.
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Personal recollections, from early life to old age, of Mary Somerville.: With selections from her correspondence, by her daughter, Martha Somerville.
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8vo, pp. vi, 377, [1] blank; woodburytype frontispiece portrait; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, decorated spine gilt, with a black label lettered in gilt, marbled edges.Perhaps one of the most distinguished English scientist's of her day, Mary Somerville was highly respected across Europe. In addition to her 'grasp of scientific truth in all branches of knowledge', she was a renowned educationalist and in her later years gave 'powerful but always temperate support to the cause of the education and emancipation of women. Hers was the first signature on John Stuart Mill's great petition to Parliament for women's suffrage, solicited by Mill himself' (DSB). One of her main strengths lay in her ability to comprehend and synthesize the work of her contemporaries and render it approachable for both the general reader and more advanced students. In the words of Sir David Brewster she was 'certainly the most extraordinary woman in Europe - a mathematician of the very first rank with all the… Read More
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