Mary Somerville and Margaret Huggins: a collaborative voice at the embryonic stages of nineteenth-century astronomical specializations

dc.contributor.advisor	Anderson, Katharine
dc.contributor.advisor	Lightman, Bernie
dc.creator	Koo, Jean
dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-13T13:13:22Z
dc.date.available	2016-09-13T13:13:22Z
dc.date.copyright	2013-04
dc.degree.discipline	Humanities
dc.degree.level	Doctoral
dc.degree.name	PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstract	"This dissertation investigates the authorial presence of two practitioners at the embryonic stages of two specializations in nineteenth-century astronomical research. Mary Somerville used prismatic analysis to separate solar rays and Margaret Huggins applied photography to spectrum analysis. How these scientific persons wrote about their experiments and outcomes in scientific papers will be assessed. My work will demonstrate that both Somerville and Huggins wrote most effectively in a collaborative voice although they wrote for different audiences. Their voices linked their own work with that of their peers as spectrum analysis provided a more ""intimate"" way to look at the stars."
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/31915
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dc.subject.keywords	astronomy
dc.subject.keywords	19th century
dc.title	Mary Somerville and Margaret Huggins: a collaborative voice at the embryonic stages of nineteenth-century astronomical specializations
dc.type	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation

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