Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Somerville NPG 690

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Rannie Swinton

Born to parents who did not believe in education for daughters; Somerville was principally self-taught. Her first husband, Samuel Greig, was hostile to her intellectualism. After his death she went on to study mathematics and was encouraged in her studies by her second husband, the surgeon William Somerville, whom she married in 1812. Her paper on the violet rays of the solar spectrum (1826) and her edition of Laplace's La mécanique céleste brought her much acclaim and she was elected as an honorary member... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.