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• AGNES, SAINT

AGNES See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

MARY See also:

• AGNES MARY CLERKE (1842-1907)

CLERKE (1842-1907)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English astronomer and scientific writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the loth of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1842, and died in See also:

• LONDON

London on the loth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1907 . She wrote extensively on various scientific subjects, but devoted herself more especially to See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy . Though not a See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical astronomer in the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary sense, she possessed remarkable skill in collating, interpreting and summarizing the results of astronomical See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research, and as a historian her See also:

• WORK

work has an important See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in scientific literature . I-Ier See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORKS

works were A Popular See also:

• HISTORY

History of Astronomy during the zpth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century, first edition 1885, See also:

• FOURTH

fourth 1902; The See also:

• SYSTEM

System of the Stars, first edition 1890, second 1905; and Problems in See also:

• ASTROPHYSICS

Astrophysics, 1903 . In addition she wrote See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

Familiar Studies in See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer (1892), The Herschels and See also:

• MODERN

Modern Astronomy (1895), Modern Cosmogonies (1906), and many valuable articles, such as her contributions to the See also:

• ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Encyclopaedia Britannica . In 1903 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society .