AGNES

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

MARY

See also:

• AGNES MARY CLERKE (1842-1907)

CLERKE (1842-1907)  , English astronomer and scientific writer, was born on the loth of February 1842, and died in London on the loth of January 1907 . She wrote extensively on various scientific subjects, but devoted herself more especially to astronomy . Though not a practical astronomer in the ordinary sense, she possessed remarkable skill in collating, interpreting and summarizing the results of astronomical research, and as a historian her work has an important place in scientific literature . I-Ier chief works were A Popular History of Astronomy during the zpth Century, first edition 1885, fourth 1902; The System of the Stars, first edition 1890, second 1905; and Problems in Astrophysics, 1903 . In addition she wrote Familiar Studies in Homer (1892), The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (1895), Modern Cosmogonies (1906), and many valuable articles, such as her contributions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica . In 1903 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society .