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قراءة كتاب Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
FROM EARLY LIFE TO OLD AGE
OF
MARY SOMERVILLE
WITH
Selections from her Correspondence.
BY HER DAUGHTER, MARTHA SOMERVILLE.
FIFTH THOUSAND.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,
1874.
[The Right of Translation is reserved.]
WORKS BY MRS. SOMERVILLE.
THE MECHANISM OF THE HEAVENS. 8vo. 1831.
THE CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. 9th Edition. Post 8vo. 9s. 1858.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 6th Edition. Post 8vo. 9s. 1870.
MOLECULAR AND MICROSCOPIC SCIENCE. 2 vols. Post 8vo. 21s. 1869.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| INTRODUCTION—PARENTAGE—LIFE IN SCOTLAND IN THE LAST CENTURY—EARLY EDUCATION—SCHOOL | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| FREEDOM—RELIGIOUS EDUCATION—JEDBURGH | 24 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| EDINBURGH—YOUTHFUL STUDIES AND AMUSEMENTS—POLITICS—THE THEATRES OF THE TIME | 41 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| EDINBURGH SUPPER PARTIES—TOUR IN THE HIGHLANDS—MUTINY IN THE FLEET—BATTLE OF CAMPERDOWN | 61 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| FIRST MARRIAGE (1804)—WIDOWHOOD—STUDIES—SECOND MARRIAGE | 73 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| SOMERVILLE FAMILY—DR. SOMERVILLE'S CHARACTER—LETTERS—JOURNEY TO THE LAKES—DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX—REMINISCENCES OF SIR WALTER SCOTT | 83 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| LIFE IN HANOVER SQUARE—VISIT TO FRANCE—ARAGO—CUVIER—ROME | 104 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS—DR. WOLLASTON—DR. YOUNG—THE HERSCHELS | 127 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| SOCIETY IN LONDON—CORONATION OF GEORGE IV.—LETTER TO DR. SOMERVILLE | 140 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| DEATH OF MARGARET SOMERVILLE—LETTER FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE TO THE REV. DR. SOMERVILLE—LIFE AT CHELSEA—THE NAPIERS—MARIA EDGEWORTH—TOUR IN GERMANY | 152 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| LETTER FROM LORD BROUGHAM—WRITES "MECHANISM OF THE HEAVENS"—ANECDOTE OF THE ROMAN IMPROVISATRICE—LETTERS FROM SIR JOHN HERSCHEL AND PROFESSOR WHEWELL—ELECTED HON. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY—NOTICE IN THE ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES, AND LETTER FROM M. BIOT—PENSION—LETTER FROM SIR ROBERT PEEL—BEGINS TO WRITE ON THE CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES—VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE—LETTERS FROM PROFESSOR SEDGWICK AND LAPLACE | 161 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| PARIS—ARAGO, LAFAYETTE, MM. BOUVARD, POISSON, LACROIX, &C., MARQUISE DE LAPLACE, DUPIN, F. COOPER—LEGITIMISTE SOCIETY—MAJENDIE—VISIT BARON LOUIS—LETTER FROM LAFAYETTE | 183 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| RETURN TO ENGLAND—LETTER FROM HALLAM—TREATISE ON THE FORM AND ROTATION OF THE EARTH AND PLANETS—SECOND EDITION OF "THE CONNEXION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES"—LETTERS FROM MARIA EDGEWORTH, MISS BERRY, LORD BROUGHAM, MRS. MARCET, ADMIRAL SMYTH—DOUBLE STARS—ECLIPSE OF DOUBLE STARS—LETTER FROM ADMIRAL SMYTH—SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL—NEBULÆ—LETTER FROM LORD ROSSE—LETTER FROM SIR JOHN HERSCHEL—SIR JAMES SOUTH'S OBSERVATORY—MR. JOHN MURRAY—MISS BERRY—LORD DUDLEY—MR. BOWDITCH AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS—MRS. BROWNING WASHINGTON—LETTER FROM THE REV. DR. TUCKERMAN—SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX ATTACKED BY HIGHWAYMEN | 198 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| ROME, NAPLES, AND COMO—BADEN—WINTER AT FLORENCE—SIENA—LETTER FROM LORD BROUGHAM—MR MOUNTSTEWART ELPHINSTONE—LIFE AT ROME—CAMPAGNA CATTLE | 230 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| ALBANO—POPULAR SINGING—LETTERS FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE—GIBSON—PERUGIA—COMET OF 1843—SUMMER AT VENICE—LETTERS FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE AND MISS JOANNA BAILLIE—ELECTED ASSOCIATE OF THE COLLEGE OF RESURGENTI AND R.I. ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AT AREZZO | 243 |
| CHAPTER XVI. |