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Queen Of Science

Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville

By (author) : Mary Somerville
Introduction by : Dorothy McMillan
Publishers: Canongate Books
Print Format: Paperback

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Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of one of Nelson's captains, she taught herself algebra in secret, and made her reputation in celestial mechanics with her 1831 translation of Laplace's Mecanique celeste as The Mechanism of the Heavens. This title tells her story.

Title	Queen Of Science
By (author)	Mary Somerville
Introduction by	Dorothy McMillan
Publishers	Canongate Books
Language of text	English
ISBN	9781841951362
Product Form	Paperback
Height	198 mm
Width	129 mm
Thickness	29 mm
Unit weight	318 gr