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Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83067177

Variants

Somerville, Mary Fairfax, 1780-1872
Somerville, Mrs. (Mary), 1780-1872

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n83067177

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Field of Activity
Science
Authorship

Occupation
Science writers

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn++83067177#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Mary Somerville Label from public data source Wikidata
Somerville, Mary
Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872

Earlier Established Forms

Somerville, Mary Fairfax, 1780-1872

Sources

found: Hamer, S. S. Mrs. Somerville and Mary Carpenter, 1892.

found: Patterson, E.C. Mary Somerville and the cultivation of science, 1815-1840, 1983:CIP title page (Mary Somerville) page vii (Mrs. Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville)

found: Her Mechanism of the heavens, 1831:title page (Mrs. Somerville)

found: Wikipedia website, viewed November 18, 2015:Mary Somerville (Mary Fairfax Somerville (26 December 1780 - 28 November 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged; Born: Jedburgh, Scotland ... Died: Naples, Italy) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville

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Change Notes

1983-04-09: new
2015-11-19: revised

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