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  title info:
    title: Mary Somerville and the World of Science
  name:
    name part: Chapman, Allan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 92 p. 17 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 a scientific brother or father. She was active in astronomy, one of the most demanding areas of science of the day, and flourished in the unique British tradition of Grand Amateurs, who paid their own way and were not affiliated with any academic institution. Mary Somerville was to science what Jane Austen was to literature and Frances Trollope to travel writing. Allan Chapman’s vivid account brings to light the story of an exceptional woman, whose achievements in a field dominated by men deserve to be very widely known.
  table of contents: Mary Somerville and Her Influence -- Early Life, Career and Friends: The Social World of Georgian Science -- The Domain of Nature: Astronomy, Optics and Geology -- Mary Somerville the Writer -- A Full, Rich Life -- Conclusion: A Career in Retrospect.
  note: by Allan Chapman.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Societal Aspects of Physics
  classification: QC6.9
  classification: QC5.53
  classification: 530.01
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
  identifier: 9783319093994
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09399-4
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    record creation date: 140826
    record change date: 20151103125658.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-09399-4