Mary Somerville
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title:
Mary Somerville
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Mary Somerville was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society. When John Stuart Mill organized a massive petition to Parliament to give women the right to vote, he made sure that the first signature on the petition would be Somerville's. When she died in 1872, The Morning Post declared in her obituary that "Whatever difficulty we might
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Scottish scientist (1780–1872)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville
date created:
2004-04-16T13:02:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T11:08:14Z
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