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Color painting (self-portrait) of Mary Sommerville. It is full of orange, red, yellow, and brown tones. Sommerville is seated, wearing a gray dress with white cuffs and collar. She also has a bonnet that matches the dress, with white lace trim. Her brown hair is parted in the middle and tucked back under the bonnet. Sommerville holds a pad of paper in her left hand and a pencil or other writing implement in her right.

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Color painting (self-portrait) of Mary Sommerville. It is full of orange, red, yellow, and brown tones. Sommerville is seated, wearing a gray dress with white cuffs and collar. She also has a bonnet that matches the dress, with white lace trim. Her brown hair is parted in the middle and tucked back under the bonnet. Sommerville holds a pad of paper in her left hand and a pencil or other writing implement in her right.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 15:00:31 UTC Robert McNees
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Her mother, worried that Lord Byron's poetic temperament might be familial, insisted that Ada be tutored in math, science, and logic. Those things, she reasoned, might counter Ada’s volatile inheritance.
Ada was tutored by the renowned mathematician and astronomer Mary Sommerville, “the Queen of Nineteenth Century Science,” who was nominated for membership in the Royal Astronomical Society at the same time as Caroline Herschel.
Image: Mary Sommerville (self-portrait)

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