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CLERKE, AGNES MARY (1842-1907)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 497 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHR-CLI
CLERKE, AGNES MARY (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.


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