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Nature 432, 553 (2 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/432553a; Published online 1 December 2004
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BOOK REVIEWED-Mary Somerville and the World of Science
by Allan Chapman
Canopus: 2004. 176 pp. £12.95
BOOK REVIEWED-Collected Works of Mary Somerville
edited by James A Secord
Thoemmes Continuum: 2004. 9 vols, £750
The educational reformer Maria Edgeworth urged women to study chemistry, although she made it sound like a glorified form of cookery by saying it "demands no bodily strength" and "applies immediately to useful and domestic purposes". But as Allan Chapman reveals in his lucid biography of Edgeworth's close friend Mary Somerville (1780–1872), it was the male astronomer John Herschel who ventured into the kitchen.
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