EAN: 9783319093987

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNO...

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.

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