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Scottish scientist Mary Somerville honoured with Google Doodle, let's know who was she
The Google has honoured the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville with a doodle on Sunday. Somerville is the first woman author whose experimental physics papers were published in Philosophical Transactions.
The Google has honoured the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville with a doodle on Sunday. Somerville is the first woman author whose experimental physics papers were published in Philosophical Transactions. On this day, the Royal Society of London, the UK's National Science Academy, on February 2, 1826, had read one of Somerville's experimental physics papers.
Born in Scotland's Jedburgh on December 26, 1790. Somerville use to help her mother with household chores apart from gardening. She went to boarding school at age of 10. In school, Somerville learned about the ideas from her art teacher that the basics of painting could be traced back to Euclid's Elements of Geometry.
She also read the books related to astronomy and mathematics and went on to publish her own scientific papers and books on the above mentioned subjects.
The highly-acclaimed book of hers 'The Mechanism of the Heavens' was published in 1831 while the Connection of the Physical Sciences, which was published in 1834ll is the best selling science book of the 19th century.
Somerville has worked on equal rights for women and was the first person to sign the 1866 women's suffrage petition. Alyssa Winans created the Google Doodle in honour of Mary Somerville.
