Miscellaneous letters, 1832-1870.
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Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872
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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...