玛丽·费尔法克斯·萨默维尔（，），蘇格蘭女性、博學家，主要研究數學和天文學。並且和卡羅琳·赫歇爾一起被提名為首批英國皇家天文學會的女性會員。
當英國哲學家约翰·斯图尔特·密尔組織對國會要求給予女性選舉權的大規模請願運動時，他讓瑪麗在該請願書上第一個簽名。
著作
- 1825 "The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum"
- " containing upwards of one thousand carefully tested recipes, expressed in simple terms suitablefor every-day life"
- 1830 "The Mechanisms of the Heavens"
- 1832 "A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanisms of the Heavens"
- 1834 "On the Connection of the Physical Sciences"
- 1848 "Physical Geography"
- 1869 "Molecular and Microscopic Science"
- 1874 "Personal recollections, from early life to old age, of Mary Somerville"
延伸閱讀
- Somerville, Martha. Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. (written by her daughter) Reprinted by AMS Press (January 1996), ISBN 0-404-56837-8 Fully accessible from Google Books project.
- Neeley, Kathryn A. Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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外部連結
*[http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/somer.htm "Mary Fairfax Somerville", Biographies of Women Mathematicians] , Agnes Scott College
- [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=AnoMary.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1 Mary Somerville] , an article by Maria Mitchell, Atlantic Monthly 5 (May 1860), 568–571.
- [http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astronomy-resource-guides/women-in-astronomy-an-introductory-resource-guide/ Bibliography] from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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*[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/somerville/somerville.html Catalogue of correspondence and papers of Mary Somerville and of the Somerville and related families, c.1700–1972] , held at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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- [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27747 Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] , her autobiography, at Project Gutenberg
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