Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age
Author: Martha SomervillePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368849204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville with Selections from Her Correspondence by Her Daughter, Martha Somerville
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Personal Recollections from Early Life to Old Age of Mary Somerville
Author: Mary Fairfax SomervillePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465589104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The life of a woman entirely devoted to her family duties and to scientific pursuits affords little scope for a biography. There are in it neither stirring events nor brilliant deeds to record; and as my Mother was strongly averse to gossip, and to revelations of private life or of intimate correspondence, nothing of the kind will be found in the following pages. It has been only after very great hesitation, and on the recommendation of valued friends, who think that some account of so remarkable and beautiful a character cannot fail to interest the public, that I have resolved to publish some detached Recollections of past times, noted down by my mother during the last years of her life, together with a few letters from eminent men and women, referring almost exclusively to her scientific works. A still smaller number of her own letters have been added, either as illustrating her opinions on events she witnessed, or else as affording some slight idea of her simple and loving disposition. Few thoughtful minds will read without emotion my mother's own account of the wonderful energy and indomitable perseverance by which, in her ardent thirst for knowledge, she overcame obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well-nigh totally debarred from education; and the almost intuitive way in which she entered upon studies of which she had scarcely heard the names, living, as she did, among persons to whom they were utterly unknown, and who disapproved of her devotion to pursuits so different from those of ordinary young girls at the end of the last century, especially in Scotland, which was far more old-fashioned and primitive than England. Nor is her simple account of her early days without interest, when, as a lonely child, she wandered by the seashore, and on the links of Burntisland, collecting shells and flowers; or spent the clear, cold nights at her window, watching the starlit heavens, whose mysteries she was destined one day to penetrate in all their profound and sublime laws, making clear to others that knowledge which she herself had acquired, at the cost of so hard a struggle.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
Author: Martha Charters SomervillePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358527302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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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
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN: 9781418138844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mary Somerville
Author: Kathryn A. NeeleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521626729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society
Author: Elisabetta StricklandPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319491938
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This biography traces the life and work of Mary Fairfax Somerville, whose extraordinary mathematical talent only came to light through fortuitous circumstances. Barely taught to read and write as a child, all the science she learned and mastered was self taught. In this delightful narrative the author takes up the challenge of discovering how Somerville came to be one of the most outstanding British women scientists and, furthermore, a popular writer. Particular attention is paid to the gender aspects of Somerville's success in what was, to put it mildly, a predominantly male domain.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
Author: Mary SomervillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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