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Mary Somerville  

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  • Mary somerville, writer on science, was born Mary Fairfax on December 26, 1780, in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. She grew up in Burntisland, Fife, where she studied on her own, despite her father's discouragement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Somerville, Mary]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GBPDS123-9

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