Queen of Science

Queen Of Science: Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville Somerville Mary Wydawca: Canongate Books Data wydania: 2001 ISBN: 9781841951362 Liczba stron: 480 Format: 212 x 206 x 35 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of one of Nelson s captains, she taught herself algebra in secret, and made her reputation in celestial mechanics with her 1831 translation of Laplace s Mecanique celeste as The Mechanism of the Heavens. This title tells her story.