Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
19, 21-4
Georges Cuvier
Standard Name: Cuvier, Georges
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | In Paris the Somervilles met Pierre Simon Laplace
, Siméon Poisson
, Louis Poinsot
, Émile Mathieu
, François Arago
, Jean-Baptiste Biot
, Alexis Bouvard
, Georges Cuvier
, Alexander von Humboldt
, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
. |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In 1813 she again met de Staël
(who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald
. Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Byron
, and Sir Walter Scott |
| Instructor | Anne Lister | In ParisAL
studied biology with Baron Georges Cuvier
. Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993. Lister, Anne. Miss Lister of Shibden Hall. Editor Green, Muriel, Book Guild, 1992. 11 |
| Publishing | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes from a work entitled Boarding School Recollections (which does not appear in OCLC or other standard library catalogues). French, German, and Spanish editions appeared. The French translation, the work of Clémentine Cuvier |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amelia Opie | This collected commemorative poems (a genre much practised by AO
) from earlier years, including at least one formerly printed in an annual. Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2024, Numbered catalogues. 53 |
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