Physical Geography: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science) - Softcover

Somerville, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108005209 ISBN 13: 9781108005203

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Mary Somerville (1780–1872) would have been a remarkable woman in any age, but as an acknowledged leading mathematician and astronomer at a time when the education of most women was extremely restricted, her achievement was extraordinary. Laplace famously told her that 'there have been only three women who have understood me. These are yourself, Mrs Somerville, Caroline Herschel and a Mrs Greig of whom I know nothing.' Mary Somerville was in fact Mrs Greig. After (as she herself said) translating Laplace's work 'from algebra into common language', she wrote On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834), also reissued in this series. Her next book, the two-volume Physical Geography (1848), was a synthesis of geography, geology, botany, astronomy and zoology, drawing on the most recent discoveries in all these fields to present an overview of current understanding of the natural world and the Earth's place in the universe.

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Mary Somerville (1780–1872) was a leading mathematician and astronomer at a time when the education of most women was restricted. Physical Geography (1848) was a synthesis of the natural sciences, drawing on the most recent discoveries to present an overview of current understanding of the natural world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108005209
• ISBN 13: 9781108005203
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320