1. Mary Somerville Mary Fairfax Somerville. Mary Fairfax Somerville s scientific investigations beganin the summer of 1825, when she carried out experiments on magnetism. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/somer.htm

Mary Fairfax Somerville Written by Shane Wood, Class of 1997 (Agnes Scott College) Mary Fairfax Somerville was born on December 26, 1780 in Jedburgh Scotland, the daughter of Margaret Charters and Lieutenant William George Fairfax, a vice admiral in the British Navy (Osen 96). With her father frequently out at sea for long periods of time and her mother exerting few restraints on her other than insisting that she learn to read the Bible and say her prayers, Mary was, in her own words, "allowed to grow up a wild creature" (Perl 84). Despite the family's fortunate economic standing, Mary's education was, as was characteristic of much of the education of young girls of her time, quite "scant and haphazard" (Osen 97). She found her only year of full-time schooling, during which she attended a boarding school for girls in Musselburgh, rather miserable and unhappy (Osen 97). Mary studied her first simple arithmetic at the age of thirteen, when her mother took a small flat for the winter months in Edinburgh and she was enrolled briefly in a writing school there. Also at about this time, she, quite by accident, began her study of algebra, as she happened upon some mysterious symbols in the puzzles of a women's fashion magazine and was able to persuade her brother's tutor to purchase some elementary literature on the subject for her (Perl 87). In 1804, at the age of twenty four, Mary married her cousin, Captain Samuel Greig. Greig was a member of the Russian Navy and had little interest in the math and science that his wife so dearly loved. Although he held intellectual women in rather low esteem, he interfered little with her work. The couple had two sons, Woronzow (1805-1865) and William George (1806-1814), but Samuel did not live to see much of the lives of his children, for he died in 1807 after only three years of marriage (Grinstein and Campbell 209).

2. Somerville Mary Somerville was the daughter of William George Fairfax and his second wifeMargaret Charters. Mary Somerville spent about a year abroad in 183233. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Somerville.html

Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville Born: 26 Dec 1780 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland Died: 29 Nov 1872 in Naples, Italy Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Mary Somerville was the daughter of William George Fairfax and his second wife Margaret Charters. Mary Fairfax was born in the church manse in Jedburgh, the home of her mother's sister Martha Charters and Martha's husband Thomas Somerville. Mary's father was a naval officer, later Vice-Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, who was at sea at the time of her birth. Mary's mother had visited London from where her husband embarked on a long sea voyage. Margaret Fairfax broke her journey north at Jedburgh where Mary was born. The family home was in Burntisland in the county of Fife, Scotland. You can see pictures of the house in Burntisland Mary was the fifth of seven children but three died very young. Of the four remaining children, Mary was brought up with her brother who was three years older than she was. A sister was born when Mary was seven, and a second brother when she was ten. The two brothers were given a good education but, in keeping with the ideas of the time, little need was seen to educate girls so Mary's parents saw no need to provide an education for their daughter. As a young child what little education she did receive was from her mother who taught her to read but it was not considered necessary to teach her to write. When Mary was ten years old she was sent to Miss Primrose's boarding school for girls in Musselburgh (a few miles east of Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth). Burntisland and Musselburgh are on opposite sides of the Firth of Forth, Burntisland on the north, Musselburgh on the south.

3. Talbot Correspondence Project: SOMERVILLE Mary, Née Fairfax To WHFT, 14 Sep [00 Talbot Correspondence somerville mary, née Fairfax to WHFT, 14 Sep00393, Talbot Correspondence Project, University of Glasgow. http://www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk/corresp/00393.asp?target=1

4. Talbot’s Correspondence:Search The Letters return to list of correspondents. Name search for somerville mary,née Fairfax 1 document 1 14 Sep TRANSCRIPTION SOMERVILLE http://www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk/letters/name.asp?namestring=Some-M&target=92

5. Great Mainbodytext - Mary Fairfax Somerville Mary Fairfax Somerville was one the most importantscientists of the nineteenth century. http://www.firstfoot.com/Great Scot/somerville.htm

Home MP3's Today's Joke SHOP ... Agnes Sampson Elizabeth Fairfax Somerville Scientist and Mathematician (1780-1872) Mary Fairfax Somerville was one the most important scientists of the nineteenth century. She was important less for her contribution to the advancement of the boundaries of knowledge, than to the advancement of the distribution of knowledge. Mary was a brilliant interpreter of scientific knowledge. She had a talent for evaluating, organising and presenting complex mathematical and scientific concepts in accessible and readable forms. Her book " Mechanisms of the Heavens ", published in 1831, became a standard text in higher mathematics for the next seventy years. Remarkable for a woman who received no formal childhood education. The family home in Burntisland Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary's childhood was spent in Burntisland. Quality Street, Burntisland to be precise. Mary's father, William Fairfax, was a vice-Admiral in the British Navy and the family income was sufficient to afford good quality housing in what, according to the 'Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-1799', was not a wealthy town -

6. Burntisland, Fife - Mary Somerville Mary Somerville. MARY SOMERVILLE (17801872) Burntisland mathematicianand astronomer. Contents. An article by Helen Mabon, Secretary http://www.fife40.freeserve.co.uk/burntisland/somerville.htm

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7. Overview Of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1780 1872. Mary Somerville ©1995-2004 Gazetteerfor Scotland. Mathematician and scientist, born in Jedburgh http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst207.html

Gazetteer for Scotland Help ... Add Comment Mary Somerville Mary Somerville Mathematician and scientist, born in Jedburgh, the daughter of a naval officer (Vice-Admiral Sir William Fairfax). Mary was born as her mother journeyed back from London to the family home at Burntisland, where Mary was educated. William Sommerville was her second husband, her first having died shortly after their marriage, and the couple settled in Edinburgh. Their friends included John Playfair (1748 - 1819), John Leslie (1766 - 1832) and David Brewster (1781 - 1868), who encouraged her study of mathematics. Mary studied algebra and published a series of books, including one on physical geography which became a standard text for more than 50 years. She also translated the works of Laplace and predicted the existence of the planet Neptune. She was a pioneer of women's education and Oxford's first college for women was named in her honour (1879). She died in Naples (Italy). If you have found this information useful please consider making a small donation to help maintain and improve this site.

8. Ockham's Razor - 03/06/2001: Mary Somerville Mary Somerville Broadcast Sunday 3 June 2001 with Robyn Williams. SummaryThis is the story of the Queen of 19th century science, Mary Somerville. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s306256.htm

All in the Mind The Buzz Earthbeat Health Report ... Science News Mary Somerville Broadcast Sunday 3 June 2001 with Robyn Williams Summary: This is the story of the Queen of 19th century science, Mary Somerville. Transcript: Robyn Williams: Let me quote: There will be lots of arguments about who is the King of 19th century Science. But there is no doubt who is Queen. Her name is Mary Somerville. Well her story illustrates two aspects of a life in science for women, both then, in the 19th century, and perhaps now. The first is the obstacles set in her way, not even allowed to buy a book if she felt like it, or join a specialist society. But the second is of confidence: how many times she was prepared to discount her contributions, despite their merit. Jenny Wanless tells the tale of Mary Somerville in this the first of two talks about scientific heroines. She’s now at Questacon in Canberra. Jenny Wanless: When the Mathematics exhibition was at Questacon some ten years ago, part of the furnishings of the exhibition were banners featuring mathematicians down through the centuries. Some of them were truly famous, such as Newton. Others were very well known in mathematical circles, and some, no-one seemed to have heard of. The designers, to make the exhibition inclusive, had listed women mathematicians and generally these were the unknowns. Mary Somerville’s name rang a bell because of Somerville College at Oxford, but I knew nothing about her. Fortunately my daughter, who was studying maths at university, had been given some books on women mathematicians, so I was able to read about them. Then, when Women in Science Week was held, Questacon asked whether any explainers would be prepared to give short talks on women scientists during that week. I decided to have a go, and chose Mary Somerville. This talk came back to me during the

9. Somerville Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 1872). Mary Fairfax Somerville wasborn in Jedburgh Scotland and was the daughter of a vice admiral http://web.uvic.ca/educ/lfrancis/web/Somerville.html

Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780 - 1872) Mary Fairfax Somerville was born in Jedburgh Scotland and was the daughter of a vice admiral in the British Navy, Lieutenant William George Fairfax. Mary only had one year of formal schooling and disliked it very much. Almost by accident, at the age of thirteen, Mary developed an interest in geometry after she happened upon some mysterious symbols in a puzzle in a women's magazine. Mary was married for a brief time, and although her husband did not outwardly support her work, he did not prevent her from pursuing mathematics either. He died within three years of their marriage, leaving the widow Mary both emotionally and financially independent. She was free to study, focussing on the works of Newton. Mary remarried in 1812 to a supportive husband. Mary later undertook a rewriting of Leplace's Mecanique Celeste and Newton's Principia . It was thought that she could present the complex ideas in these works more simply for broader understanding. Although originally unsure of her qualifications for this project she was very successful. Somerville was to later become good friends with Caroline Herschel and her family after receiving an award with Caroline.

10. Mary Somerville Mary Somerville was born in 1780. She didn t have much education and didn tbecome interested in algebra until she was over 14 years old. http://www.jenine.org/geogirls2000/people/mary.html

Mary Somerville was born in 1780. She didn't have much education and didn't become interested in algebra until she was over 14 years old. She married twice, both times to her cousins. Her first husband didn't support her in her math studies. The second one did. She was the first woman to have her paper read to the Royal Society. The paper was "The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the solar System". In 1835 she and another woman were the first women to be elected in the Royal Astronomical Society. It was a great honor to receive. She died in 1872 at the age of 92.

11. Mary Somerville Project: Mechanism Of The Heavens [1831] - Second Edition [2001] The mary somerville Project (Mechanism of the Heavens Etext). The Mechanismof the Heavens was the first english language rendition http://www.malaspina.com/etext/heavens.htm

The Mary Somerville Project Mechanism of the Heavens Etext The Mechanism of the Heavens was the first english language "rendition" of Pierre Simon Laplace's five volume In this work Somerville, who was later known for her predition of the then undiscovered planets Neptune and Pluto, introduced continental mathematics to english speaking readers for the first time This led to a revolution in mathematics in the UK, beginning at Cambridge University where the Mechanism of the Heavens became a standard text in courses on higher mathematics. This second edition of Mechanism of the Heavens is designed to address not only its scarcity, but several deficiencies in the first edition. These include the correction of 140 reported errata and a significant number of unreported errata in the 1831 edition. The unreported errata include obvious printing errors such as page repeats, mislabeled chapters, and obvious printing related mathematical errata. All changes to the text have been clearly identified and the original expressions included in notes at the end of each chapter. We have made no attempt to challenge the mathematical integrity of this work. The Critical Reviews written in 1832 and included in this second edition clearly document the importance of the original text in altering the trajectory of 19th century mathematics in the English speaking world. This annotated second edition includes short biographies of numerous 19th century mathematicians and scientists referred to in the first edition (most of whom were known to Somerville). New non-mathematical annotated

12. Somerville, Mary somerville, mary. author, astronomer (1780 1872) She was a popularizer of astronomy and wrote textbooks. The Royal Academy in Britain awarded her an honorary membership (women were not permitted to http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/SOMERVILLE.html

SOMERVILLE, MARY author, astronomer (1780 - 1872) She was a popularizer of astronomy and wrote textbooks. The Royal Academy in Britain awarded her an honorary membership (women were not permitted to hold membership in those days). Return to Homepage

13. About Mary Somerville Information on mary somerville her life and work. Neeley, Kathryn and mary somerville. mary somerville Science, Illumination and the Female Mind. 2001. somerville, mary and Martha somerville . http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_mary_somerville.htm

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14. Mary Fairfax Somerville Contenido Anterior Próxima. mary Fairfax. Nacida el 26 de diciembre de 1780 de una familia pobre y en sus primeros años no tuvo una buena educación. Se le trató de enseñar a leer y a coser, pero http://cuhwww.upr.clu.edu/mate/museo/mujeres/mary.htm

Contenido Anterior Próxima Mary Fairfax Nacida el 26 de diciembre de 1780 de una familia pobre y en sus primeros años no tuvo una buena educación. Se le trató de enseñar a leer y a coser, pero ella no estaba interesada. Aprendió latín sola para poder leer el libro de Comentarios de César . Por un corto tiempo, estudió aritmética, escritura, piano y latín; pero su familia se opuso a que ella estudiara y prefería que gastara su tiempo en actividades sociales o aprendiendo artes domésticas. En una actividad vió una revista en la que salian letras y lineas en un dibujo y ella preguntó qué era eso, a lo que le respondieron que le llamaban Algebra. Ella trató de buscar más información pero le fue imposible. Esto fue así hasta que un día el tutor de su hermano menor le hizo llegar más información. Este al ver el gran interés de Fairfax, le haría Ilegar los libros de Euclides. En 1804 se casó y tuvo 2 hijos; uno, murió en la niñez y otro, a mediados de vida. Su esposo murió en 1807, dejándola en pobre estado de salud. De ahí en adelante se dedicó a estudiar matemáticas y astronomía. Después de resolver un problema matemático para un revista, el editor la llamó para trabajar con él. En 1812 se casó y ésto le dió la oportunidad de conocer otros matemáticos y astrónomos. En 1826 presentó su primer ensayo a la Sociedad Royal sobre Las Propiedades Magnéticas de los Rayos Violetas del Espectro Solar . Lord Brougham le pidió que escribiera dos volúmenes acerca de

15. Somerville, Mary Fairfax Greig. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The Englis American Heritage® Dictionary. somerville. somesthetic. CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Language Fourth Edition. 2000. somerville, mary Fairfax Greig http://www.bartleby.com/61/76/S0557625.html

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16. Somerville Biography of mary somerville (17801872) mary somerville was the daughter of William George Fairfax and his second wife Margaret Charters Charters and Martha's husband Thomas somerville. mary's father was a naval officer http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Somerville.html

Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville Born: 26 Dec 1780 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland Died: 29 Nov 1872 in Naples, Italy Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Mary Somerville was the daughter of William George Fairfax and his second wife Margaret Charters. Mary Fairfax was born in the church manse in Jedburgh, the home of her mother's sister Martha Charters and Martha's husband Thomas Somerville. Mary's father was a naval officer, later Vice-Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, who was at sea at the time of her birth. Mary's mother had visited London from where her husband embarked on a long sea voyage. Margaret Fairfax broke her journey north at Jedburgh where Mary was born. The family home was in Burntisland in the county of Fife, Scotland. You can see pictures of the house in Burntisland Mary was the fifth of seven children but three died very young. Of the four remaining children, Mary was brought up with her brother who was three years older than she was. A sister was born when Mary was seven, and a second brother when she was ten. The two brothers were given a good education but, in keeping with the ideas of the time, little need was seen to educate girls so Mary's parents saw no need to provide an education for their daughter. As a young child what little education she did receive was from her mother who taught her to read but it was not considered necessary to teach her to write. When Mary was ten years old she was sent to Miss Primrose's boarding school for girls in Musselburgh (a few miles east of Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth). Burntisland and Musselburgh are on opposite sides of the Firth of Forth, Burntisland on the north, Musselburgh on the south.

17. - Great Books - knowledge of, nor interest in, science of any kind (Martha somerville, PersonalRecollections from Early life to Old Age of mary somerville, London, 1873). http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_509.asp

Mary Fairfax Somerville Mathematician, born in Jedburgh and raised in Burntisland, Scotland. She was the daughter of Margaret Charters and vice-Admiral Sir William George Fairfax. Somerville first married naval officer Samuel Greig in 1804. In Somerville's words her first husband, "had a very low opinion of the capacity of my sex, and had neither knowledge of, nor interest in, science of any kind" (Martha Somerville, Personal Recollections from Early life to Old Age of Mary Somerville , London, 1873). She married William Somerville in 1812 after the death of her first husband in 1807. William, an inspector of hospitals, was supportive of her interest in science and played a leading role as her assistant. William and Mary lived in Edinburgh where she studied mathematics, botany, geology, French and Greek. Mary's circle of friends in Edinburgh included William Wallace (1768-1843), John Playfair (1748-1819), John Leslie (1766-1832), and Sir David Brewster (1781-1868). During this period Somerville read Newton 's Principia and Laplace's Mécanique céleste Mechanism of the Heavens (1831) established Somerville's reputation as a brilliant scientific author. Her next book

18. Somerville, Mary (born Fairfax) somerville, mary (born Fairfax) (17801872). In 1848, at the age ofsixty eight, mary Fairfax somerville published yet another book. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/Somerville/1.h

Somerville, Mary (born Fairfax) Mary Fairfax Somerville was born on December 26, 1780 in Jedburgh Scotland, the daughter of Margaret Charters and Lieutenant William George Fairfax, a vice admiral in the British Navy (Osen 96). With her father frequently out at sea for long periods of time and her mother exerting few restraints on her other than insisting that she learn to read the Bible and say her prayers, Mary was, in her own words, "allowed to grow up a wild creature" (Perl 84). Despite the family's fortunate economic standing, Mary's education was, as was characteristic of much of the education of young girls of her time, quite "scant and haphazard" (Osen 97). She found her only year of full-time schooling, during which she attended a boarding school for girls in Musselburgh, rather miserable and unhappy (Osen 97). Mary studied her first simple arithmetic at the age of thirteen, when her mother took a small flat for the winter months in Edinburgh and she was enrolled briefly in a writing school there. Also at about this time, she, quite by accident, began her study of algebra, as she happened upon some mysterious symbols in the puzzles of a women's fashion magazine and was able to persuade her brother's tutor to purchase some elementary literature on the subject for her (Perl 87). In 1804, at the age of twenty four, Mary married her cousin, Captain Samuel Greig. Greig was a member of the Russian Navy and had little interest in the math and science that his wife so dearly loved. Although he held intellectual women in rather low esteem, he interfered little with her work. The couple had two sons, Woronzow (1805-1865) and William George (1806-1814), but Samuel did not live to see much of the lives of his children, for he died in 1807 after only three years of marriage (Grinstein and Campbell 209).

19. Somerville, Mary Fairfax somerville, mary Fairfax. EMail Address obel Prize in MathematicsNominations! Specific project information can be found in the http://www.district96.w-cook.k12.il.us/hauser/math/csp/pages/2037.11.12.03.html

Somerville, Mary Fairfax E-Mail Address: obel Prize in Mathematics Nominations! Specific project information can be found in the math folder found in the Hauser Hard Drive. Use the internet sites below to investigate one of the Mathematical Pleiades, women mathematicians whose achievements have helped shape mathematics of today. After you have answered the questions on your worksheet, your group will present your nomination for the newly formed Nobel Prize for Mathematics. Besides pertinent biographical information, your nomination must put your mathematician in historical perspecive and must explain why she is a member of the Mathematical Pleiades. Bio 1 Bio 2 Bio 3 Bio 4 ... Click here to update. Last updated on 11/12/03.

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MARY SOMERVILLE SOMERVILLE, MARY Somerville, originally a part of Charlestown, was settled in 1630. Six hundred acres, the Ten Hills Farm, were granted here in 1631 to John Winthrop, who built and launched here in that year the Blessing of the Bay, the first ship built in Massachusetts. For more than a century it was a sparsely settled farming community, the only article of manufacture SOMERVILLESOMME See T. H. Kurd, History of Middlesex County (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1890); S. A. Drake, History of Middlesex County (2 vols., Boston, 1880); E. A. Samuels, Somerville Past and Present (Boston, 1897); Miss M. A. Haley, The Story of Somerville (Boston, 1903). WILLIAM SOMERVILE SOMERVILLE (MASS.)

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