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Collected Works of Mary Somerville

Author(s): Somerville, Mary

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ISBN13: 9781843710882

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Mary Somerville is of central interest in gender studies, the history of nineteenth-century science and mathematics, and analyses of science and literature. The initial volume in the set includes all her published scientific papers and her review on comets, together with over thirty-five reviews of her work and life. A specially written general introduction provides an orientation to Somerville's career, work, and the broader historical setting, together with suggestions for further reading. Each of her books is introduced by an account of its composition and publishing history, together with a list of all known reviews.

Acknowledgements

xiii

General Introduction

James A. Secord

Further Reading

xli

Notes on the Texts in this Edition

xliii

Note on the Texts in this Volume

xlv

Part I: Scientific Papers by Mary Somerville

`Prize Question 310', in Thomas Leybourn, New Series of the Mathematical Repository (London: W. Glendinning, 1811), vol. 3, part i, Mathematical Questions, pp. 151--3

`Question 311', in Thomas Leybourn, New Series of the Mathematical Repository (London: W. Glendinning, 1812), vol. 3, part i, Mathematical Questions, pp. 169--70

`Question 377', in Thomas Leybourn, New Series of the Mathematical Repository (London: W. Glendinning, 1816), vol. 3, part i, Mathematical Questions, pp. p. 91

`Question 381', in Thomas Leybourn, New Series of the Mathematical Repository (London: W. Glendinning, 1816), vol. 4, part i, Mathematical Questions, pp. 95--6

`Question 382', in Thomas Leybourn, New Series of the Mathematical Repository (London: W. Glendinning, 1816), vol. 4, part i, Mathematical Questions, pp. 96--7

`On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 116 (1826), pp. 132--9; read 2 Feb. 1826

`Astronomy -- the Comet', Quarterly Review, vol. 55, (Dec. 1835), pp. 195--223

`Experiences sur la transmission des rayons chimiques du spectre solaire, a travers differents milieux. Extrait d'une lettre de Mme Sommerville a M. Arago', Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des seances de l'Academie des Sciences, vol. 3, (1836), pp. 473--6; read 17 Oct. 1836

`Extract of a Letter from Mrs Somerville to M. Arago, Detailing some Experiments Concerning the Transmission of the Chemical Rays of the Solar Spectrum through Different Media', Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. 22, (Apr. 1837), pp. 180--83

```On the Action of the Rays of the Spectrum on Vegetable Juices:'' Being an Extract from a Letter by Mrs. M. Somerville to Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., dated Rome, September 20, 1845. Communicated by Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart. F.R.S.', Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London, vol. 5 (Dec. 1845), pp. 569--70

`On the Action of the Rays of the Spectrum on Vegetable Juices. Extract of a Letter from Mrs. M. Somerville to Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., F.R.S. dated Rome, September 20, 1845', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 136, (1846), pp. 111--20; read 27 Nov. 1845

Letter to Josephine E. Butler, in James Stuart, 'The Teaching of Science', in J. E. Butler, ed., Woman's Work and Woman's Culture: A Series of Essays (London: Macmillan, 1869), pp. 138--40

`Mrs. Somerville on the Eruption', Echo (8 May 1872), p. 4

Part II: Reviews and Biographical Accounts

Review of Mechanism of the Heavens, Literary Gazette (17 Dec. 1831), pp. 806--7

Review of Mechanism of the Heavens, Monthly Review, n.s., vol. 1 (Jan. 1832), pp. 133--41

Jean Baptiste Biot, Review of Mechanism of the Heavens, Journal des savans (Jan. 1832), pp. 28--32

Review of Mechanism of the Heavens, Athenaeum (21 Jan. 1832), pp. 43--4

Review of Mechanism of the Heavens, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 2, (Feb. 1832), pp. 71--2

[Thomas Galloway], Review of Mechanism of the Heavens, Edinburgh Review, vol. 55 (Apr. 1832), pp. 1--25

[John F. W. Herschel], Review of Mechanism of the Heavens, Quarterly Review, vol. 47 (July 1832), pp. 537--59

Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, Literary Gazette (8 Mar. 1834), pp. 173

[William Cooke Taylor], Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, Athenaeum (15 Mar. 1834), pp. 202--3

[William Whewell], Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, Quarterly Review, vol. 51 (Mar. 1834), pp. 54--68

Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, Mechanics' Magazine, vol. 20 (29 March 1834), pp. 442--7

[David Brewster], Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, Edinburgh Review, vol. 59 (Apr. 1834), pp. 154--71

Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, The Printing Machine: Or, Companion to the Library (19 Apr. 1834), pp. 78--80

Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, vol. 16 (July 1834), pp. 123--32

Report of the Council of the Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 3 (Feb. 1835), pp. 91

`Mrs. Somerville', Examiner (16 Aug. 1835), p. 524: extract from Lydia Tomkins (pseudonym), [Lord Henry Brougham], Thoughts on the Ladies of the Aristocracy (London: Hodgsons, 1835)

Review of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, West of England Journal of Science and Literature (Oct. 1835), vol. 1, part i, Science, pp. 247--50

Review of Physical Geography, Spectator (29 Apr. 1848), p. 423

Review of Physical Geography, Literary Gazette (29 Apr. 1848), p. 295

Review of Physical Geography, Examiner (8 July 1848), pp. 435--6

[Edwin Lankester], Review of Physical Geography, Athenaeum (2 Sept. 1848), pp. 877--9

Review of Physical Geography, Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (30 Dec. 1848), p. 863

[Henry Holland], Review of Physical Geography, Quarterly Review, vol. 83 (Sept. 1848), pp. 305--40

Maria Mitchell, 'Mary Somerville', Atlantic Monthly, vol. 5 (May 1860), pp. 568--71

Review of On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Monthly Microscopical Journal, vol. 1 (1 Feb. 1869), pp. 120--21

[Robert Hunt], Review of On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Athenaeum (6 Feb. 1869), pp. 202--3

Review of On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (6 Feb. 1869), p. 141

[Henry E. Roscoe], Review of On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Edinburgh Review, vol. 130 (July 1869), pp. 137--63

`Mrs. Somerville', Morning Post (2 Dec. 1872)

[Frances Power Cobbe], 'Blessed Old Age', Echo (3 Dec. 1872), p. 1

[Harriet Martineau], 'The Late Mrs Somerville', Daily News (3 Dec. 1872), p. 2

R[ichard] A. P[roctor], 'Mary Somerville', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 23 (14 Feb. 1873), pp. 190--97

Frances Power Cobbe, Review of Personal Recollections, Academy (3 Jan. 1874), pp. 1--2

Review of Personal Recollections, Nature (2 Apr. 1874), pp. 417--18

[Margaret Oliphant], Review of Personal Recollections, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 115 (Apr. 1874), pp. 443--51

Clara L. Balfour, Women Worth Emulating (London: Sunday School Union, [1878]), frontispiece and, pp. 1--18

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London: Macmillan, 1889), pp. 35--45

[Lady Grace Anne Prestwich], 'An Evening with Mary Somerville', Leisure Hour (1893), pp. 38--42

Introduction

James A. Secord

Bibliography of Reviews

xvii

Further Reading

xix

Note on the Text

xxi

Mary Somerville's Mechanism of the Heavens

Dedication

iii

Preliminary Dissertation

Introduction

(3)

Book I

(141)

Book II

145

(266)

Book III

411

(90)

Book IV

501

(110)

Index

611

(11)

Errata

622

Introduction

James A. Secord

Bibliography of Reviews

xvii

Further Reading

xix

Note on the Text

xxi

Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Dedication

iii

Preface

Errata

vii

Introduction

(4)

Universal Gravitation

(6)

Disturbing Forces

(5)

Perturbations to Planetary Orbits

(9)

Theory of Jupiter's Satellites

(9)

Lunar Theory

(14)

Figure of the Earth

(13)

Parallax

(5)

Masses of the Sun, Planets and Moon; Astronomical Tables

(6)

Rotation of the Sun, Planets and their Satellites

(8)

Rotation of the Earth

(11)

Precession and Nutation

(5)

Time, Chronology and Measurement

(12)

Tides and Currents

108

(15)

Molecular Attraction

123

(7)

Atmosphere and the Weather

130

(7)

Sound

137

(16)

Harmony

153

(10)

Refraction

163

(9)

Colours

172

(9)

Theory of Light

181

(14)

Laws of Polarization

195

(12)

Phenomena of Polarization

207

(16)

Undulatory Theory of Light

223

(5)

Heat and Caloric

228

(24)

Distribution of Heat; Climate

252

(20)

Distribution of Plants, Animals and Man

272

(13)

Phenomena of Electricity

285

(15)

Galvanic Electricity

300

(9)

Magnetism

309

(14)

Electromagnetism

323

(7)

Electrodynamics

330

(6)

Magneto-electricity

336

(5)

Electricity from Rotation and from Heat

341

(5)

Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism

346

(13)

Comets and the Ether

359

(24)

(sic). Stars, Nebulae and Meteorites

383

(24)

Laws of Matter; Conclusion

407

(8)

Explanation of Terms

415

(38)

Index

453

Introduction

James A. Secord

Bibliography of Reviews

xvii

Further Reading

xix

Note on the Text

xxi

Mary Somerville's Physical Geography

River Systems of North America---Rivers of Central America---Rivers of South America, and of Australia

(16)

Lakes---Northern System of the Great Continent---Mountain System of the same---American Lakes

(14)

The Atmosphere

(11)

Vegetation---The Nourishment and Growth of Plants---Classes---Botanical Districts

(21)

Vegetation of the Great Continent---Of the Arctic Islands ---And of the Arctic and North Temperate Regions of Europe and Asia

(18)

Flora of Tropical Asia---Of the Indian Archipelago, India, and Arabia

(12)

African Flora---Flora of Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and of Polynesia

(18)

American Vegetation---Flora of North, Central, and South America---Antarctic Flora---Marine Vegetation

111

(28)

Distribution of Insects

139

(9)

Distribution of Fishes, and of the Marine Mammalia, Phocae, Dolphins, and Whales

148

(20)

Distribution of Reptiles---Frogs and Toads---Snakes, Saurians, and Tortoises

168

(16)

Distribution of Birds in the Arctic Regions---In Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and the Antarctic Regions

184

(32)

Distribution of Mammalia throughout the Earth

216

(30)

The Distribution, Condition, and Future Prospects of the Human Race

246

Introduction

James A. Secord

Bibliography of Reviews

xvii

Further Reading

xix

Note on the Text

xxi

Mary Somerville's On Molecular and Microscopic Science

PART III. ANIMAL ORGANISMS

Functions of the Animal Frame

(12)

Protozoa

(68)

Hydrozoa Zoophytes

(38)

Anthozoa Zoophytes

119

(25)

Annulosa, Or Worms

144

(25)

Echinodermata

169

(19)

The Crustacea

188

(25)

Cirripedia

213

(5)

Bryozoa, Or Polyzoa

218

(4)

Tunicata, Or Ascidians

222

(7)

Mollusca

229

(24)

Index

253

Introduction

James A. Secord

Bibliography of Reviews

xvii

Obituaries and Contemporary Biographical Articles

xix

Early Works about Mary Somerville

xxi

Further Reading

xxiii

Note on the Text

xxv

Mary Somerville's Personal Recollections

Index of Names

379

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