Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with…

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""On Molecular and Microscopic Science V1"" is a scientific book written by Mary Somerville in 1869. The book provides a detailed account of the molecular and microscopic science that had…

Personal recollections from early life to old age of Mary Somerville - With selections from her correspondence is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is…

Mary Somerville (1780-1872) was a leading mathematician and astronomer at a time when the education of most women was restricted. Physical Geography (1848) was a synthesis of the natural sciences…

Title: Physical Geography. Fourth edition … revised. With a portrait.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the…

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

This book tells the life story of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century and offers an in-depth analysis of the factors that allowed her…