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| Other authors / contributors: | Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872.
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| ISBN: | 0511019653
9780511019654
9780511156526
0511156529
0521622999
9780521622998
0521626722
9780521626729
9780511613326
0511613326
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Annotation In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. Her scientific writings contributed to one of the most important cultural projects of Victorian Britain: establishing science as a distinct, integral, and unifying element of culture. By the time of her death, Somerville had achieved near-mythic status in Britain. Her works reflect both the power of science to capture imagination and the influence of cultural factors in the development of science. They provide a window into a particularly lucid and illuminated mind and into one of the most formative periods in the evolution of modern scientific culture. This retelling of Somerville's story focuses on the factors that allowed her to become an eminent scientist and argues for rethinking the story of women's participation in science.
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| Other form: | Print version: Neeley, Kathryn A. (Kathryn Angelyn), 1954- Mary Somerville. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521622999
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