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Mary Somerville, Queen of 19th Century Science (2016)
Mary Somerville, one of the first women scientists and science writers, came to be known after her death as the "queen of 19th century science."
In 1831, her translation and explanation of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s calculus-filled Mécanique céleste, published in English as The Mechanism of the Heavens, was an enormous success. Elizabeth C. Patterson describes that work as “no mere popularization of outmoded science but an authentic statement of the latest views at the times of publication.” The “public worth” of Brock’s title refers to the debate over Somerville’s pension, first awarded by the Tory Robert Peel in 1835 and increased under the succeeding Whig government.
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