The queen of science

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3132, 2017, págs. 40-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Vesuvius' crater was spewing gases and snorting magma as the lady gingerly traversed it, handkerchief pressed to her nose. In places the lava had formed a crust hard enough to step on. As she peered through the cracks, glowing molten rock was visible beneath. It was Dec 1817 and Mary Somerville, the first great popularizer of science, was following her passion. Not content with merely interpreting scientific research, Somerville was eager to see natural phenomena for herself and so gather source material for her greatest work, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences. Here, Baraniuk reveals how Somerville transformed science from an obscure set of studies dominated by men into something far more egalitarian and accessible