I first #read The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite in Feb 2020 when I had a mystery virus that put me to bed for a week. I can only plead illness for giving it only 4⭐️ in GR. This week, I bought the #audiobook. I’ve now revised to a perfect 5⭐️ - a perfect F/F #historicalromance. In addition to the #romance, it dives into access & equity debates of women’s & 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ rights. @romancebooks @bookstodon #books #reading #romancelandia
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@ElleSabine @romancebooks @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands Are we talking HS physics celestial mechanics, or “I can take a spaceplane from Kerbin to Duna and back via Eve slingshot”?
@hendric @romancebooks @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands it’s a fictional historical romance, so it’s science as understood in 1831: mostly astronomy, physics, & the first concepts of Babbage’s analytical engine. But primarily it’s a fictionalized account of Mary Somerville translating the Marquis de Laplace’s “Mécanique Céleste” as “The Mechanism of the Heavens” -if she’d been gay, single, & 23yo. (She was 51yo, married twice, & a mother by 1831.) #historyofscience
@ElleSabine @romancebooks @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands *TBR pile grows* Thanks for the info!
@ElleSabine @romancebooks @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands
Whelp that’s off the TBR pile.
I give it
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Thanks!
@hendric @romancebooks @bookstodon @herhandsmyhands note — Somerville was also one of the first English speakers to drop Newtonian physics and use modern mathematics (ie “the calculus”) instead.