| Description |
1 online resource (279 pages) |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Author's Preface""; ""Key to Parenthetical References to the Works of Mary Somerville""; ""Perceiving What Others Do Not Perceive""; ""1 Head Among the Stars, Feet Firm Upon the Earth""; ""2 Creating a Room of Her Own in the World of Science""; ""3 Science as Exact Calculation and Elevated Meditation""; ""4 The Earth, the Sea, the Air, and Their Inhabitants""; ""5 Mary Somerville on Mary Somerville""; ""6 Memory and Mary Somerville""; ""Epilogue Science, Voice, and Vision""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her gender identity and by creating rich, readable, and authoritative accounts of science that were rhetorically compelling, aesthetically satisfying, and valuable to the scientific community in the UK and abroad. This biography offers detailed analysis of the underlying patterns, themes, and rhetorical strategies of her major works and argues that Somerville employed a transcendent feminine style that retained the advantages but transcended the limitations usually associated with women's ways of knowing. The book advocates a new narrative for women's participation in science and demonstrates the many ways that gender relates to science and science functions in culture |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872.
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| SUBJECT |
Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872 fast |
| Subject |
Women scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Women scientists
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Somerville, Mary
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| ISBN |
9780511156526 |
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0511156529 |
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