Kathryn A. Neeley

Mary Somerville

Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind
Herausgeber: Gregory Kohlstedt, Sally; Knight, David M.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521626729
• ISBN-10: 0521626722
• Artikelnr.: 20999584

Inhaltsangabe

Author's preface; Prologue; Perceiving what others do not perceive: the
'peculiar illumination' of the female mind; 1. Head among the stars, feet
firm upon the earth: the problem of categorizing Mary Somerville; 2.
Creating a room of her own in the world of science: how Mary Fairfax became
the famous Mrs Somerville; 3. Science as exact calculation and elevated
meditation: Mechanism of the Heavens (1931), Preliminary Dissertation
(1832), and On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834); 4. The earth,
the sea, the air, and their inhabitants: Physical Geography (1848) and On
Molecular and Microscopic Science (1869); 5. Personal Recollections (1973):
Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville; 6. Memory and Mary Somerville: in the
public eye and historical memory; Epilogue: science, voice, and vision.