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Somerville, Mary Greig
Scottish scientific writer who produced several widely used textbooks, despite having just one year of formal education. Somerville College, Oxford, is named after her.
Her main works were Mechanism of the Heavens (1831), a translation of French astronomer Pierre Laplace's treatise on celestial mechanics; The Connexion of Physical Sciences (1834); Physical Geography (1848); and On Molecular and Microscopic Science (1869).
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