Titlebook: Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840; Elizabeth Chambers Patterson Book 1983 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1

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The First Trip Abroad, (1776–1823), Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, sailed by packet from Dover to Calais. It was Mary Somerville’s first trip abroad and it would leave her, bad sailor though she always was, with an incurable taste for travel. In the initial weeks of their travels she kept a journal,. faithfully recor

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In the Mainstream of London Science,); Henry Kater (1777–1835; F.R.S., 1814); Sir John Saunders Sebright (1767–1846); Francis Chantrey (1781–1841; F.R.S., 1818), William Blake (1774–1852; F.R.S., 1807) and Henry Warburton (1784–1848; F.R.S., 1809). Alexander and Jane Marcet were part of this circle until Marcet’s death in October 1822

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The Second Stay Abroad,r recovery was slow and that left her thin and weak. Her husband insisted that she have a complete change of air and scene and they fixed upon a jaunt to Paris. Mrs. Somerville would have opportunity there for rest and diversion in surroundings she already knew. She, whose Laplace rendition had won

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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, was only then being formulated by scientific usage. The decisions she made about material to be included under that rubric were influential in characterizing it and were unchallenged. Today a sentence from her work is cited in the ., under the second meaning of the word ‘physics’, as an example of

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The Civil List and Mary Somerville, Peel’s reasons for placing her on the Civil List in April 1835 reflect not only her public position at the time but changes that were taking place in the award of pensions and in politicians’ perceptions of the place of science and scientists in the national life. Further, a close examination of th

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,‘The Comet’, an Experiment, and a Third Edition,his mother in excitement at hearing of her pension. He went on to declare, in words that not only reveal her children’s attitude toward their mother’s science but express the sentiments felt by many of her circle and others, his admiration of Peel:

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The Last London Years,h August until the Forbes debt was finally discharged was a time of anxiety and crisis, for payment was due in that month. To the outside world, unaware of these pressures, Mary Somerville appeared an object of serene good fortune. She reported to her daughter with wry amusement that late in 1835 so

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ary Mexico. The country has emerged from a prolonged period of state-led and relatively autarkic economic development to one that is increasingly market-driven and integrated into the global economy. It has modernized its politics and created a new set of institutions that have given rise to a new e

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Elizabeth Chambers Pattersonary Mexico. The country has emerged from a prolonged period of state-led and relatively autarkic economic development to one that is increasingly market-driven and integrated into the global economy. It has modernized its politics and created a new set of institutions that have given rise to a new e