The Critical Archive


Baker, J. N. L. 1948. "Mary Somerville and Geography in England." The Geographical Journal 111 (4-6): 207-22.

Brock, Claire. 2006. "The Public Worth of Mary Somerville." The British Journal for the History of Science 39 (2): 255-72.

Chapman, Allan. Mary Somerville and the World of Science, Bristol: Canopus Publishing, 2004. 

Osen, Lynn M. Women in Mathematics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974.

Patterson, Elizabeth C. 1969. "Mary Somerville." The British Journal for the History of Science 4 (4): 311 39.

Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. "Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)", in Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook, Louise Grinstein and Paul Campbell, Editors, Greenwood Press, 1987, 208-216.

Sanderson, Marie. 1974. "Mary Somerville: Her Work in Physical Geography." Geographical Review 64(3): 410-20.

Secord, John. Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Wilkinson, Joan. 2010. "Mary Somerville 1780-1872: A Great Scientist of Her Time." Sharp Rock Graphics, http://yorkshiregirl.org.uk.