Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Author's Preface
- Key to Parenthetical References to the Works of Mary Somerville
- Prologue: Perceiving What Others Do Not Perceive: The “Peculiar Illumination” of the Female Mind
- 1 Head among the Stars, Feet Firm upon the Earth: The Problem of Categorizing Mary Somerville
- 2 Creating a Room of Her Own in the World of Science: How Mary Fairfax Became the Famous Mrs. Somerville
- 3 Science as Exact Calculation and Elevated Meditation: Mechanism of the Heavens (1831), “Preliminary Dissertation” (1832), and On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834)
- 4 The Earth, the Sea, the Air, and Their Inhabitants: Physical Geography (1848) and On Molecular and Microscopic Science (1869)
- 5 Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville: Personal Recollections (1873)
- 6 Memory and Mary Somerville: In the Public Eye and Historical Memory
- Epilogue: Science, Voice, and Vision
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Author's Preface
- Key to Parenthetical References to the Works of Mary Somerville
- Prologue: Perceiving What Others Do Not Perceive: The “Peculiar Illumination” of the Female Mind
- 1 Head among the Stars, Feet Firm upon the Earth: The Problem of Categorizing Mary Somerville
- 2 Creating a Room of Her Own in the World of Science: How Mary Fairfax Became the Famous Mrs. Somerville
- 3 Science as Exact Calculation and Elevated Meditation: Mechanism of the Heavens (1831), “Preliminary Dissertation” (1832), and On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834)
- 4 The Earth, the Sea, the Air, and Their Inhabitants: Physical Geography (1848) and On Molecular and Microscopic Science (1869)
- 5 Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville: Personal Recollections (1873)
- 6 Memory and Mary Somerville: In the Public Eye and Historical Memory
- Epilogue: Science, Voice, and Vision
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Mary SomervilleScience, Illumination, and the Female Mind, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001