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	Mary Somerville - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Somerville (New Jersey), borough, seat of Somerset County, north central New Jersey, on the Raritan River; incorporated as a borough 1909.
		Mary Somerville (December 26, 1780 November 28, 1872) was a Scottish science writer.
		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...
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	Ockham's Razor - 3 June 2001 - Mary Somerville
		Mary was hesitant, but agreed to attempt the task on two conditions: the first that the endeavour be kept secret, and the second that if it were not satisfactory, her work should be burnt.
		As Mary knew most of the principal scientists of the day, she got her knowledge of advances in science 'from the horse's mouth', as it were, and the editions illustrate the progress of science through four decades.
		Mary felt keenly that she was not an original scientist, that she lacked that spark and that probably women were not gifted with that type of creativity.
	abc.net.au /rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2001/306256.htm (2149 words)

	Mary Somerville - LoveToKnow 1911
		MARY SOMERVILLE (1780-1872), British scientific writer, was the daughter of Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, and was born on the 26th of December 1780 in the manse of Jedburgh, the house of her mother's sister, wife of Dr Thomas Somerville (1741-1830), author of My Own Life and Times, whose son was her second husband.
		In 1804 she married her cousin, Captain Samuel Greig, who died in 1806; and in 1812 she married another cousin, Dr William Somerville (1771-1860), inspector of the army medical board, who encouraged and greatly aided her in the study of the physical sciences.
		After her marriage she made the acquaintance of the most eminent scientific men of the time, among whom her talents had attracted attention before she had acquired general fame, Laplace paying her the compliment of stating that she was the only woman who understood his works.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mary_Somerville (332 words)

	Somerville biography
		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 became so engrossed in mathematics that her parents worried that her health would suffer because of the long hours of study that she put in, usually during the night.
		Mary Somerville published her first paper The magnetic properties of the violet rays of the solar spectrum in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1826.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Somerville.html (2151 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Somerville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The town of Somerville in Burleson County is adjacent to the reservoir.
		Mary Somerville (1780-1872), British scientific writer, after whom Somerville College is named.
		Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Somerville (1010 words)

	Somerville biography
		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 became so engrossed in mathematics that her parents worried that her health would suffer because of the long hours of study that she put in, usually during the night.
		Mary Somerville published her first paper The magnetic properties of the violet rays of the solar spectrum in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1826.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /Biographies/Somerville.html (2151 words)

	Great mainbodytext - Mary Fairfax Somerville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mary Fairfax Somerville was one the most important scientists of the nineteenth century.
		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 - "the poor, within the borough, is rather numerous.
		Mary's early education was undertaken by her father during his irregular periods at home from the sea.
	www.firstfoot.com /GreatScot/somerville.htm (647 words)

	Mary Somerville Summary
		Somerville spent most of the rest of her life on the European continent--even after the death of her husband in 1860 and son in 1865.
		Mary Fairfax Somerville was born December 26, 1780, the fifth of seven children, to Margaret Charters and Lieutenant William George Fairfax.
		Somerville's father was unhappy with the books she was reading, fearing negative effects on her domestic skills and social graces, and forbade her to read such materials.
	www.bookrags.com /Mary_Somerville (2914 words)

	Mary Somerville
		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).
		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.
		Dr. Somerville was very supportive of his wife's intellectual endeavors, despite the fact that some of his family wished that Mary would "give up her foolish manner of like and make a respectable and useful wife" (Osen 104).
	www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/somer.htm (1178 words)

	Somerville Family
		Somerville is a house-carpenter by trade, but has engaged in farming most of the time since his marriage; owned more than 200 acres of land with a good set of farm buildings and a fine orchard of apple trees.
		Somerville was born in Beaver County, PA., July 29, 1822, came to Indiana at age 13, and was married to Phoebe Jane Cunningham July 10,1845, moving to Minnesota in 1860.
		William Elliott Somerville, son of Andrew Elliott and Phoebe Jane (Cunningham) Somerville, was born in Viola Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota on Dec. 24, 1860.
	www.wesleyhardenzone.com /somervil.htm (6465 words)

	MarySomerville
		Mary Fairfax Somerville was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer who supported the emancipation and education of women.
		Mary F. Somerville was born in Jedburgh, Scotland, the daughter of a naval officer, Admiral Sir William Fairfax and his second wife Margaret Charters.
		Somerville was inspector of the army medical board and, aside from his professional duties, was able to give some time to special scientific pursuits.
	www.historyswomen.com /thearts/MarySomerville.htm (531 words)

	Mary Somerville Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mary Somerville was the daughter of Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, and she was born at her uncle's manse in Jedburgh.
		William helped Mary develop her interests in the physical sciences and opened doors that allowed her to make the acquaintance of many of the most eminent men of science and thinkers of the day.
		In 1835, Mary Somerville and Caroline Herschel became the first women to be admitted to membership of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in the same year she was awarded an annual pension of £300 by the government in recognition of her work in communicating science to a wider audience.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/biographies/marysomerville.html (542 words)

	Somerville College - University of Oxford - The College
		Mary Somerville (1780 1872), a twice-married Scot whose international reputation as a scientist was gained in the intervals of raising a family of five children, provided students with a formidable role model.
		In the 1890s the Somerville Council was prominent in an unsuccessful campaign to admit women to degrees; the success of the 1920 campaign owed much to the diplomatic skills and academic reputation of the then Principal, Miss (later Dame) Emily Penrose.
		As a mixed college, Somerville continues to take pride in its pioneering history, its traditions of academic excellence and public service, its scientific reputation, and its literary heritage, seeking to maintain and reinterpret for the 21st century its founders' commitment to the principle of equality of opportunity in education.
	www.some.ox.ac.uk /college (644 words)

	Archives: Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The most substantial charges laid out by McLean were that Somerville allowed a volunteer to work in the office, that she seemed to have a shaky grasp of the voter-registration database and that she did not adhere to state policy when discussing the counting of provisional ballots.
		Somerville was appointed to a four-year term on the local Board of Elections in the summer of 2003.
		Somerville's sole effort to defend herself Tuesday was to argue that the state had violated her right to due process by not giving her adequate notice of the hearing and by not sending the case documents given the state board until Monday afternoon.
	www.hendersondispatch.com /articles/2004/10/20/news/news01.txt (1594 words)

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		Mary Fairfax was born in Jedburgh, Scotland in 1780 and died on 29 November 1872 in Naples.
		Mary married a cousin, Captain Samuel Greig, in 1804 but, after bearing him two sons, she was widowed in 1807.
		Somerville Hall, Oxford was named in her memory in 1879, and in 1903 the first Mary Somerville Research Fellowship was granted.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~bello012/Botany-Somerville.htm (584 words)

	Mary Somerville
		This book isn't simply a biography of Mary Somerville, it is more about putting her into the context of the scientific world of the nineteenth century, and seeing why she isn't as well known as maybe she ought to be.
		Mary was born in 1780 and was an intelligent child, and an avid reader, but didn't get much of a chance to fulfil her potential until she married her second husband Dr William Somerville in 1812.
		Mary was already well known in the scientific community, and the books sold well, further increasing her reputation.
	www.chronon.org /reviews/Mary_Somerville.html (991 words)

	Clan Somerville
		Hugh Somerville, the seventh Lord, was also a supporter of the queen, but in the shifting politics of the time he later supported her son, James VI, becoming a Privy Councillor.
		James was entertained by the Somervilles in such splendour that they burdened themselves with debt and had to sell their estates at Carnwath, When the Scots nobility was ranked in 1606 after the union of the crowns, the name Somerville did not appear.
		Mary Somerville who died in 1872 was a noted mathematician and scientific writer as well as a great pioneer of womens education, and Somerville College in Oxford, founded in 1879, is named after her.
	www.clansomerville.net /clan_history.php (608 words)

	Mary Somerville - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Somerville, Mary Fairfax Greig (1780-1872), Scottish mathematician whose popular writings on mathematics, physical chemistry, and astronomy...
		Somerville (Massachusetts), city, Middlesex County, northeastern Massachusetts, on the Mystic River, a residential and industrial community near...
		Somerville (New Jersey), borough, seat of Somerset County, north central New Jersey, on the Raritan River; incorporated as a borough 1909.
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	Aki Bern: Somerville
		Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872) wuchs in Schottland in einer wohlhabenden Familie auf, in der Wert auf eine angemessene Erziehung gelegt wurde.
		Zufälligerweise wurde in einer Zeitschrift ein mathematisches Rätsel gestellt, welches Marys Tanten auch nicht lösen konnten, das aber ihr Interesse an der Algebra herausforderte.
		Mit einer eigenen wissenschaftlichen Arbeit trat Mary Somerville erstmals 1825 in der wissenschaftlichen Welt auf, mit einer experimentellen Abhandlung zum Magnetismus.
	www.aki-unibe.ch /raeume/somerville.php (785 words)

	Adrien Marie Legendre : Version para imprimir
		Mary Somerville era consciente de que estas reuniones culturales eran los únicos contactos posibles con las últimas novedades científicas, algo vital para estar en la primera línea de la ciencia que se desarrollaba en ese momento.
		Mary se había manifestado como una joven inquieta y observadora, de manera que inició un aprendizaje autodidacta muy común a otras científicas de su tiempo.
		Mary Somerville fue una infatigable trabajadora, una persona cuya dedicación a la ciencia es incuestionable.
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	Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination and the Female Mind.(Brief Article) - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		This new biography of the nineteenth century's leading female scientist notes that Mary Somerville 'rose to eminence by teaching people to use science and a variety of existing aesthetic traditions to see and respond to the natural world in a new way'.
		Mary Somerville used language 'to push the frontiers of imagination'.
		Mary Somerville's real gift was 'the power to i lluminate, to bring things into view that have been hidden before'.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-85532668.html (259 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Great Englishwomen by M. B. Synge
		Somerville never wrote for fame, but it was very pleasant to have such praise from one of the greatest men of science living.
		Somerville saw men walking along the streets with umbrellas up, and found that Vesuvius was sending out an immense quantity of ashes like fine sand, and neither land, sea, nor sky were visible.
		Somerville stands alone as the greatest woman in the world of science; she was entirely self-taught, and it was by her own efforts she rose to be what she was—a woman of untiring energy, with wonderful power of thought and clearness of mind, a woman in advance of her times.
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	Mary Somerville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary Somerville (December 26, 1780 – November 28, 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged.
		She was the daughter of Admiral Sir William George Fairfax, and was born at the manse of Jedburgh, in the Borders, the house of her mother's sister, wife of Dr Thomas Somerville (1741–1830), author of My Own Life and Times, whose son would become Mary's second husband.
		In 1812 she married another cousin, Dr William Somerville (1771–1860), inspector of the Army Medical Board, who encouraged and greatly aided her in the study of the physical sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Somerville (595 words)

	Dubreil-Jacotin on Mary Somerville
		[Sophie Germain's] contemporary, Mary Fairfax, born in 1780, met from her father, a Scotch admiral, the same hostility toward her mathematical studies; and, despite her precocious propensities, it was only after a short widowhood and then remarriage to her cousin Somerville, that she succeeded in asserting herself as a mathematician.
		Mary Somerville's principal work consisted of translating and thus making known to her contemporaries the celestial mechanics of Laplace and of adding to it personal notes of real value.
		Mary Somerville also left a goodly number of papers in mathematics and physics; she was pensioned by Queen Victoria for her scientific work.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Extras/Dubreil-Jacotin_Somerville.html (305 words)

	Women in Math (Mary Somerville)
		Mary accompanied him and was then able to attend lectures at the Royal Institution.
		Mary Somerville was a great supporter of women's education, women's emancipation and the anti-vivisection movement.
		Mary Somerville worked hard to bring mathematics to not only to her life but to make it accessible for the general public.
	www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca /BestOf/WomenInMath7105.html (783 words)

	No. 224: Mary Fairfax Somerville
		By the time Mary Somerville reached her late forties, the French had come to the end of a brilliant period of mathematical work.
		Mary Somerville tutored her for a while -- then Babbage took her on as a pupil.
		Mary Somerville also lived at the eye of the storm that 19th-century science created by challenging biblical literalism.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi224.htm (527 words)

	RANKINGSCRIPT.COM - Informationen über Mary Somerville in der Kategorie Suchmaschinenoptimierung
		Mary Somerville, geboren im Haus der Schwester ihrer Mutter, dem Pfarrhaus in Jedburgh, Schottland, war die Tochter von Admiral Sir William George Fairfax.
		Somerville hatte aus erster Ehe mit Samuel Greig (1804, mit einem entfernten Cousin, der Hauptmann und russischer Konsul in London war) zwei Kinder und erbte, als dieser 1806 verstarb, ein Vermögen, das es ihr ermöglichte, ihren wissenschaftlichen Interessen nachzugehen.
		1831 publizierte Mary Somerville als Auftragswerk für die Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge eine Übersetzung der Mécanique Céleste von Laplace unter dem Titel The Mechanism of the Heavens in allgemeinverständlicher Sprache und Form, was ihr sofortige Berühmtheit einbrachte.
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