Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville
de Somerville, Mary
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- ISBN 10
- 1841951366
- ISBN 13
- 9781841951362
- Librería
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Burntisland, Fife, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
UK: Canongate, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 1.3 x 4.9 x 7.5 inches. Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of one of Nelson's captains, and in common with most girls of her time and station she was given the kind of education which prizes gentility over ability. Nevertheless, she taught herself algebra in secret, and made her reputation in celestial mechanics with her 1831 translation of Laplace's M?anique c?este as The Mechanism of the Heavens. As she was equally interested in art, literature, and nature Somerville's lively memoirs give a fascinating picture of her life and times from childhood in Burntisland to international recognition and retirement in Naples. She tells of her friendship with Maria Edgeworth and of her encounters with Scott and Fenimore Cooper. She remembers comets and eclipses, high society in London and Paris, Charles Babbage and his calculating engine, the Risorgimento in Italy, and the eruption of Vesuvius. Selected by her daughter and first published in 1973, these are the memoirs of a remarkable woman who became one of the most gifted mathematicians and scientists of the 19th century. Oxford's Somerville College was named after her, and the present volume, re-edited by Dorothy McMillan, draws on manuscripts owned by the college and offers the first unexpurgated edition of these revelatory writings. Edited and introduced by Dorothy McMillan.
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- Librería
- Hanselled Books (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 087446
- Título
- Queen of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville
- Autor
- Somerville, Mary
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1841951366
- ISBN 13
- 9781841951362
- Editorial
- Canongate
- Lugar de publicación
- UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Páginas
- 434
- Tamaño
- 1.3 x 4.9 x 7.5 inches
- Palabras clave
- biography burntisland
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography/Biography;
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