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Nov 19, 2020
3 minutes
Mary Somerville
The pioneering science writer and first woman member of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mary Somerville was a celebrated lady of science of her day. Her name lives on in the Oxford College named after her, there’s a crater on the Moon that bears her name and in 2017 her face featured on the Scottish £10 note, but who was she, and why is she so celebrated?
Like many women within the history of science, her story
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