Marcet

Marcet reinvented the dialogue form as a series of imaginary scientific lessons between a teacher "Mrs B" possible based on a famous astronomer tutor, Margaret Bryan and her two young women pupils.

The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010

It was a book by an American woman, "Conversations on Chemistry*," written in 1813 by Mrs. J Marcet, of New Haven, which contributed to the great Faraday's first interest in chemistry, according to his own statement, when as an apprentice bookbinder he snatched moments form his work to read the books which came to be bound in his employer's shop. (p. 3) The tone is upbeat about the future of women in chemistry professions.

Women Working, 1800-1930 Peggy 2007

Marcet make no claim of being a chemist herself, rather she attended lectures on chemistry and was interested enough to further her own education.

Women Working, 1800-1930 Peggy 2007

It was a book by an American woman, "Conversations on Chemistry*," written in 1813 by Mrs. J Marcet, of New Haven, which contributed to the great Faraday's first interest in chemistry, according to his own statement, when as an apprentice bookbinder he snatched moments form his work to read the books which came to be bound in his employer's shop. (p. 3) The tone is upbeat about the future of women in chemistry professions.

Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007

Marcet make no claim of being a chemist herself, rather she attended lectures on chemistry and was interested enough to further her own education.

Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007

Mr. and Mrs. Marcet; Arago; De Candolle the botanist; Von Stein; Sismondi – all are considerable names, and the owners of all five were at that moment to be found in or near Geneva.

Maria Edgeworth 1905

I have just repeated upon this plant, and in a measure verified the experiments with chloroform and sulphuric ether upon the Mimosa sensitiva, made by Prof. Marcet, of Geneva, in illustration of the relations existing between animal and vegetable sensibility.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

The result of my observations differed from those of Prof. Marcet, but agreed with De Candolle in his analogous experiments with nitric and sulph. acids in its

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

Two visits had thus early been paid him by Mr. Haldimand, formerly a member of the English parliament, an accomplished man, who, with his sister Mr.. Marcet (the well-known authoress), had long made

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

'Yet that,' said Marcet, 'is what our Swiss pastors are required to do.

Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832