A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanism of the Heavens
Author: Mary Somerville
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first american edition of the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville's work.
Author: Mary Somerville
Publisher:
Published: 1832
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first american edition of the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville's work.
Author: Mary Somerville
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-11-17
Total Pages: 75
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens" by Mary Somerville. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Mary Somerville
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Published: 2024-06-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789362095442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary Somerville
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781318583799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author: Kathryn A. Neeley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-10-22
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521626729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.
Author: Allan Chapman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 3319093991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Nasser Zakariya
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 563
ISBN-13: 022650073X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Popular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move beyond particular disciplines, to create a compelling story weaving together natural historical events, scientific endeavor, human discovery, and contemporary existential concerns. In AFinal Story, Nasser Zakariya delves into the origins and ambitions of these scientific epics, from the nineteenth century to the present, to see what they reveal about the relationship between storytelling, integrated scientific knowledge, and historical method. While seeking to transcend the perspectives of their own eras, the authors of the epics and the debates surrounding them are embedded in political and social struggles of their own times, struggles to which the epics in turn respond. In attempts to narrate an approach to a final, true account, these synthesizing efforts shape and orient scientific developments old and new. By looking closely at the composition of science epics and the related genres developed along with them, we are able to view the historical narrative of science as a form of knowledge itself, one that discloses much about the development of our understanding of and relationship to science over time.