Book ID: CBB000330760

Mary Somerville: Science, illumination, and the female mind (2001)

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Neeley, Katheryn A. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xvi + 263 pp.
Language: English

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Review Anderson, Katherine (2003) Review of "Mary Somerville: Science, illumination, and the female mind". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 237). unapi

Review Lightman, Bernard (2002) Review of "Mary Somerville: Science, illumination, and the female mind". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 301). unapi

Review Yeo, Richard (2003) Review of "Mary Somerville: Science, illumination, and the female mind". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 105). unapi

Review Murray, Margaret (2003) Review of "Mary Somerville: Science, illumination, and the female mind". Victorian Studies (p. 577). unapi

Review Govoni, Paolo (2003) Review of "Mary Somerville: Science, illumination, and the female mind". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (p. 384). unapi

Review Alberti, Johanna; Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. (2002) Review of "Mary Somerville: Science, illumination, and the female mind". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 716). unapi

Essay Review Delamont, Sara (2005) Lives of the Great Women Scientists: The Never Ending Story?. Social Studies of Science (pp. 491-496). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kölbl-Ebert, Martina
Stenhouse, Brigitte
Smith, Elise Lawton
Page, Judith W
Murphy, Patricia
Boswell, Michelle Suzanne Lang
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
The Chemical Educator
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Florida
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Women in science
Science and gender
Science and literature
Biographies
Botany
Mathematicians
People
Somerville, Mary Fairfax
Naden, Constance Caroline Woodhill
Darwin, Charles Robert
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise
Yelverton, Barbara, Marchioness of Hastings
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Sweden
Greece
Germany
Institutions
Women's Engineering Society
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