The Net Advance of Physics History and Philosophy: Mary Somerville

• Mac Tutor [St. Andrews University]
• Mary Somerville Biography (short) [Biography.com]
• Mary Fairfax Somerville, by Shane Wood, 1995/04 Biographies of Women in Mathematics [Agnes Scott College]
• Women in Math: Mary Fairfax Somerville, by Marni Mishna, 1997 Best of mathNEWS [University of Waterloo]
• November, 1872 The Death of Mary Somerville, 2002/11 This Month in Physics History [APS]
• Mary Somerville, by Anonymous, 1860/05 Atlantic Monthly [University of Virginia]
• Mary Somerville, by E. Conder Gray [Electric Scotland]
• Wikipedia
• Two Good Women, or Too Good to be True?, by Paula Gould, 2002/06 (critical of both Somerville and C. Herschel for failing to conform to feminist expectations) Science [AAAS]
• Ockham's Razor: Mary Somerville, by Jenny Wanless, 2001/06 [Australian Broadcasting Corporation]
• From Engines of Our Ingenuity: [University of Houston]
  • Mary Fairfax Somerville, by John H. Lienhard
  • Somerville, Curiosity, and Learning, by John H. Lienhard<./a>
  • Somerville and Marcet, by John H. Lienhard
• Mary Somerville: La Reina de las Ciencias del Siglo XIX, by Belén Cobo Merino (Spanish language web site) [Thales: Sociedad Andaluza de Educación Matemática]
• Mary Somerville, by Nieves Zuasti Soravilla (Spanish language) [DivulgaMAT]

• Mrs. Somerville with (a Few of) Her Friends Net Advance Retro blog post, 2013/08/05.

• WORKS:
  • Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville With Selections from her Correspondence edited by Martha Sommerville [Boston: Roberts, 1874]

  • Mechanism of the Heavens by Mary Sommerville [London: John Murray, 1831]
  • The Connection of the Physical Sciences by Mary Sommerville [Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1834]
  • Physical Geography by Mary Somerville Volume I --- Volume II [London: John Murray, 1849]
  • On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville Volume I: Atoms, Molecules of Matter, and Vegerable Organisms --- Volume II: Animal Organisms [London: John Murray, 1869]

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