{"product_id":"queen-of-science-9781841951362","title":"Queen Of Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of one of  Nelson's captains, and in common with most girls of her time and station  she was given the kind of education which prizes gentility over  ability. Nevertheless, she taught herself algebra in secret, and made  her reputation in celestial mechanics with her 1831 translation of  Laplace's \u003ci\u003eM�canique c�leste\u003c\/i\u003e as \u003ci\u003eThe Mechanism of the Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs  she was equally interested in art, literature and nature Somerville's  lively memoirs give a fascinating picture of her life and times from  childhood in Burntisland to international recognition and retirement in  Naples. She tells of her friendship with Maria Edgeworth and of her  encounters with Scott and Fenimore Cooper. She remembers comets and  eclipses, high society in London and Paris, Charles Babbage and his  calculating engine, the Risorgimento in Italy and the eruption of  Vesuvius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by her daughter and first published in 1973,  these are the memoirs of a remarkable woman who became one of the most  gifted mathematicians and scientists of the nineteenth century. Oxford's  Somerville College was named after her, and the present volume,  re-edited by Dorothy McMillan, draws on manuscripts owned by the college  and offers the first unexpurgated edition of these revelatory writings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Somerville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281383272699,"sku":"9781841951362","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781841951362_7bc6336b-1ddd-4d82-8463-ff1b1b6653db.jpg?v=1772487442","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/queen-of-science-9781841951362","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}