On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences: A gendered biography (1834-1877)

Authors

  • Madelyn Hernández Olivares Universitat de València

Keywords:

Mary Somerville, 19th-century, physics, gender, book history, Arabella Buckley.

Abstract

This is a biography of Mary Somerville’s On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences through its ten editions from 1834 to 1877. It studies, from a material and content analysis: the role of the material culture of print and readers in the making of scientific knowledge, in an era when ‘physics’ was about to become a discipline. It also examines the case of Arabella Buckley as the editor of the posthumous edition of
Somerville’s book, to establish a narrative in which women of science take the lead in the history of physics.

Author Biography

Madelyn Hernández Olivares, Universitat de València

ORCID: 0000-0002-6640-7407

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Published

2024-02-16

Issue

Vol. 15 (2022)

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