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Mary Somerville

Born

in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland

December 26, 1780

Died

November 28, 1872

Genre

Science, Memoir

Influences

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Mary Fairfax Somerville 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 nominated to be jointly the first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society at the same time as Caroline Herschel. ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 56 ratings · 12 reviews · 65 distinct works

	Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville: With Selections from Her Correspondence 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2009 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville, Dorothy McMillan (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1973 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One With A Shepherd - The Tears and Triumphs of a Ministry Marriage 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1834 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Molecular and Microscopic Science Vol. 1 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A preliminary dissertation on the mechanism of the heavens really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astounded by His Love a Discipleship Guide for Jesus' Bride it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Physical Geography did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1849 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Works of Mary Somerville 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Physical Geography, Vol. 2 of 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1849 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is not always possible to come to an agreement before one goes to sleep but it is possible to go to sleep in a loving and peaceable manner knowing that the problem can be worked out in love at a later time.”
― Mary Somerville

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“So numerous are the objects which meet our view in the heavens, that we cannot imagine a part of space where some light would not strike the eye : but as the fixed stars would not be visible at such distances, if they did not shine by their own light, it is reasonable to infer that they are suns ; and if so, they are in all probability attended by systems of opaque bodies, revolving about them as the planets do about ours.”
― Mary Somerville, Mechanism of the heavens

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“Perhaps the day may come when even gravitation, no longer regarded as an ultimate principle, may be resolved into a yet more general cause, embracing every law that regulates the material world.”
― Mary Somerville, Mechanism of the heavens

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