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Physical Geography (Paperback)
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Physical Geography (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science, Volume 1
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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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