A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens

Name: A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens
Author: Mary Somerville

by Mary Somerville

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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United States: Carey & Lea, 1832.

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Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)

Release date

2022-02-12

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Celestial mechanics

About the author

Mary Somerville

1780–1872

A self-taught Scottish mathematician and science writer, she helped open complex astronomy and physics to a much wider readership. Her books made her one of the best-known scientific voices of the 19th century.

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