Mary Somerville
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ScientistsLived 1780 to 1872 · aged 91
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Mary Somerville was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Vice-Admiral William Fairfax; Mary's father, painted in 1798
View of the City of Edinburgh by Alexander Nasmyth. Mary spent the winters in Edinburgh and attended Nasmyth's academy.
Commemorative medal of Mary Somerville
Title page to Mechanism of the Heavens (1831)
Page 157 from Mechanism of the Heavens, Somerville discusses the law of universal gravity and Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Cover page of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences![In the revised third edition of Physical Geography, published in 1851, Somerville noted that her publisher had intended to include illustrations, but that this plan was abandoned since the Physical Atlas provided maps illustrating the "most important questions" of physical geography.[75] Geographical Distribution of Plants from Alexander Keith Johnston's 1848 The Physical Atlas.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Geographical_Distribution_of_Plants_1850_Alexander_Keith_Johnston.png/1280px-Geographical_Distribution_of_Plants_1850_Alexander_Keith_Johnston.png)
In the revised third edition of Physical Geography, published in 1851, Somerville noted that her publisher had intended to include illustrations, but that this plan was abandoned since the Physical Atlas provided maps illustrating the "most important questions" of physical geography.[75] Geographical Distribution of Plants from Alexander Keith Johnston's 1848 The Physical Atlas.Awards 1
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About this person
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1780 to 1872 · aged 91
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