Mary Somerville & Somerville College

1. Mary Somerville & Somerville College Anne Manuel College Librarian and Archivist

2. Mary Somerville 1780-1872Early Life Born in Jedburgh Taught herself geometry and mathematics 1st husband died young leaving her with an independent income and a son, Woronzow Started studying in earnest – married in 1812 to cousin William Somerville

3. Middle Years • 1830 Completed her rendition of Laplace’s MécaniqueCélèstebringing Continental mathematics to Great Britain • 1834 Published On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences • 1835 Elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Astronomical Society • Moved to Italy in 1840 Bust of Mary Somerville by Lawrence Macdonald Bust of Mary Somerville at the Royal Society by Sir Francis Chantrey

4. Carte De Visite c 1850s Portrait by James RannieSwinton 1844 (Somerville College)

5. Mary Somerville’s Publications in Somerville Library

6. Somerville CollegeFounded 1879 An early view of the College Mrs Humphry Ward First secretary of Somerville Council

7. Mary Somerville’s Papers • Loaned to Somerville in 1960 • Gifted on death of Lady Fairfax- Lucy in 1994 • Catalogued by Elizabeth Patterson in the late sixties. • Gladys KriebleDelmasFoundation grant in 2012 • Conservation of papers and digitisation/updating of the catalogue • Now on Bodleian website

8. Charles Babbage Charles Lyell Michael Faraday Caroline Herschel Charles Darwin Pierre-Simon Laplace Ada Lovelace

9. Ada Lovelace

10. Treasures from the Collection • Charles Darwin

11. Treasures from the Collection • John Stuart Mill’s petition to the House of Commons of 1867

12. Treasures from the Collection • Maria Edgeworth describes Mary Somerville to a friend

13. Treasures from the Collection • Charles Babbage invites Mary Somerville to view his ‘Calculating Engine’

14. Somerville CollectionNext Phase • Digitisation of sections of the collection • Online exhibition • Permanent exhibition in College