MARY SOMERVILLE'S VISION OF SCIENCE

Somerville was writing books for an audience showing simultaneous physical science discoveries. Though she did mathematics and astronomy training, she had prepared a performance with commentary, of four books of Pierre Simon (Chapman 2015). The first book titled heaven’s mechanism was widely served in Cambridge University as a textbook. She later wrote on the physical science connexon, discussing interconnections between heat, light, gravitation, electricity, and mechanism. Somerville achievements brought rewards. Thirdly, British emphasized in work paid through observation rather than studying to acquire credentials professions, which was a disadvantage to women. Also, computing positions which permitted women to enter astronomy were rare. Such type of jobs went to younger men. They laid a foundation on new physical astronomy which was concerned with the bodies’ nature as manifested by their surface feature, brightness changes, and spatial distribution.