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Mary Somerville
Somerville College in Oxford is much better known than the woman it was named after, Mary Somerville, an eminent scientist who had died 7 years before the founding of the college in 1879. Mary Somerville (1780-1872) was a polymath, an … Continue reading
Posted in History of Science, Women in Science
Tagged 19th century science, science writing, William Whewell
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