Thomas Phillips (peintre de portrait anglais) - Mary Fairfax - Mme William Somerville - écrivain sur la science - 1834

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• ID de l’image: 2P92FE6
• Taille du fichier: 37,7 MB (2 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3290 x 4000 px | 27,9 x 33,9 cm | 11 x 13,3 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 1834

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Mary Fairfax was the daughter of a naval officer and born in Jedburgh. As was customary for young ladies, she received very little formal education. Yet she taught herself algebra in secret and, as a young wife and mother, she continued to study mathematics. Widowhood at twenty-seven gave her the independence to develop her intellectual interests and her second husband, William Somerville, proved more supportive than her first. Somerville’s particular contribution to nineteenth-century science lay in her powers of analysis and explication rather than original research. She translated Laplace’s The Mechanism of the Heavens into English and wrote a bestselling book on physics. After her death, Somerville College in Oxford was named in her honour - National galleries of Scotland

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