Mary Somerville Quote

That the study of mathematics and their application to astronomy are full of interest will be allowed by all who have devoted their time and attention to these pursuits; and they only can estimate the delight of arriving at truth, whether it be in the discovery of a world, or of a new property of numbers.


Mechanism of the Heavens, Preliminary Dissertation (p. 2), John Murray. 1831


That the study of mathematics and their application to astronomy are full of interest will be allowed by all who have devoted their time and...

That the study of mathematics and their application to astronomy are full of interest will be allowed by all who have devoted their time and...

That the study of mathematics and their application to astronomy are full of interest will be allowed by all who have devoted their time and...

That the study of mathematics and their application to astronomy are full of interest will be allowed by all who have devoted their time and...