The Mary Somerville Connexion

Richard Holmes, whose recent books include The Age of Wonder and This Long Pursuit, will explore the various friendships and mentor relationships that Mary Somerville (1780-1872) formed with contemporary scientists John Herschel, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and Maria Mitchell (USA). These serve to illuminate the whole question of women in science, popularising science, and scientific education, in a period of unprecedented advances in science, exploration and understanding of the universe.

Date: 3 May 2017, 17:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2017)
Venue:
Flora Anderson Hall
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Details: Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD - See more at: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/67869d27-9818-441b-be43-fafae474c351/#sthash.mSJwE0GW.dpuf
Speaker: Richard Holmes OBE, FRSL, FBA
Organiser: Principals Office
Organiser contact email address: principals.office@some.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
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- Seminars and Events of interest to the Faculty of History
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