Collection, 1800s, 1997-1999.

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Collection, 1800s, 1997-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769016679

The collection contains biographical information and a handwritten dinner invitation written by Mary Somerville sometime in the nineteenth century.

.21 linear feet (1half-document box)

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8180190

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69t2j3m (person)

Mary Somerville was a Scottish astronomer and physicist. From the description of Letter, 1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007445 Mary Somerville (born Mary Fairfax) was born on December 26, 1780 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Somerville became interested in mathematics as a teenager. Somerville's first major work was a translation of the mathematician Laplace's book Mécanique Céleste. She included in the translation detailed explanations of the adv...