The Scientific Archive
Somerville's work
1825 "The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum"
1830 "Mechanism of the Heavens"
1832 "A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens"
1848 "Physical Geography"
Secondary Sources
Arianrhod, Robyn. 2012. Seduced by Logic. Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press.
Brock, Claire. 2006. ‘The public worth of Mary Somerville’, British Journal of the History of Science, 39(2): 255-272.
Bruck, Mary T. "Mary Somerville, mathematician and astronomer of underused talents," Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 106, no. 4 (1996): 201-206. [Reprinted at SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System]
Neeley, Kathryn A. 2001. Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Patterson, Elizabeth C. 1974- "The Case of Mary Somerville: An Aspect of Nineteenth Century Science." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118 (3): 269-75.
Richeson, A.W. "Mary Somerville," Scripta Mathematica, Vol. 8 (1941), 5-13.
Silliman, Benjamin and Mary Somerville. Electro-Magnetism: History of Davenport's Invention of the Application of Electro-magnetism to Machinery; with Remarks on the Same from the American Journal of Science and Arts. New York: Carville, 1837.
Stenhouse, Brigitte. ‘Mary Somerville’s early contributions to the circulation of differential calculus’. Historia Mathematica, 51(2020): 1-25.
Stenhouse, Brigitte. ‘Mary Somerville: Being and Becoming a Mathematician’. PhD thesis The Open University, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0001346f
Strickland, Elisbetta. "Mary Fairfax Somerville, Queen of Science," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 64, No. 8 (September 2017), 929-931.
Wiegand Brothers, Dometa. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.