Mary Fairfax Somerville was a mathematician ... she became the first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society. Mary was also a huge advocate of women's rights, votes for women and women ...
In Human Intelligence, novelist and writer Naomi Alderman looks at some of the most brilliant minds in human history. One of the teachers profiled is Mary Somerville, a brilliant polymath who ...
A Scottish science writer and academic, Mary Somerville was one of the first women to be nominated as a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, alongside German astronomer Caroline Herschel.
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