Somerville, Mary [née Fairfax] (1780-1872)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4015. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Physicist and mathematician, born in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland, self-educated, and educated with the aid of her brother's tutor. With the early death of her husband, she found herself a widow of independent means and took up mathematics, studying astronomy and dynamics. She carried out experiments on magnetism and the solar spectrum. She wrote a popularized rendition of Laplace's Mecaniqu...

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