personal recollections of Mary Somerville
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Somerville, Mary
- Creator
- McMillan, Dorothy > (ed. and introd.)
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- A366 - A
- Thesaurus
- autobiografieën, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Somerville tells about her life and times as a astronomist, her friendship with Maria Edgeworth and her encounters with Scott and Fenimore Cooper. She describes the high society in London and Paris, the Risorgimento in Italy and the eruption of Vesuvius.