Boole Mary Everest
Mary Everest Boole was born in (1832 – 1916) was a self-taught mathematician who is most well known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her life is of interest to feminists as an example of how women made careers in an academic system that did not welcome them. She was born Mary Everest in England, the daughter of a minister, Thomas Everest. Her uncle, George Everest, gave his name to Mount Everest. She spent the first part of her life in France. Her education in mathematics came from a tutor and from self-study prior to her introduction to her future husband. Her daughter, Ethel Lilian (1864-1960), married Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was a novelist (among others works including The Gadfly).
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the preparation of the child for science
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE TRAINING OF THE IMAGINATION FOR learning the art of the orderly arrangement of thought, no previ6us!?wl?dge is necessary of logic or of any science whatever. What i necessary is a willingness on the part of the readers not to J-Csft but to aid the writer in furnishing their minds with simplt imagery, derived from various departments of human life, including science. The imagery will be used, not in order to prove any doctrine, but to facilitate the orderly arrangement of thought material. When we are trying to put our household goods in order, we find it useful to provide ourselves with convenient shelves, racks, and hooks on which to store them; when we are trying to put our thoughts in order, we find it advisable to fasten up in our memories a convenient framework of imagery on which we can register our thought-processes. Let us think of Time as a mass of water in a pool or tank. That is to say, Time Past is the water. Time Future shall be represented by the air above it. Water is continually coming slowly in at the top of the pool, and trickling away below into cavernous depths out of sight. The surface of the pool represents Time Present. Now let us represent the consciousness of an individual by a stick floating at the surface of the pool. On one end of the stick is written " Emotion and Sensation "; on the other, " Action and Influence." Please get this idea fixed up in your mind, before you read any further. Little precautions of this kind go a great way towards conferring clearness of understanding and preventing fogginess and misapprehension of a writer's meaning. Get the vision fixed quite firmly; it is not a mere ornament, but a hook on which you are going, presently, to hang a weight, perhaps a heavy one. We have supposed the stic... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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lectures on the logic of arithmetic
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HOW MEN LEARNED IN OLD TIMES You have heard, my dears, that, a long time ago, there were no people in this country except savages. Perhaps some of you have read that delightful book, The Story of Ab ; or you may have seen the picture of a savage with his wife and baby, at the beginning of Clodd's book, Primitive Man. How do you think children learned lessons in those days ? Do you think Ab's wife ever told little Mok to wash his face and hands1, and come to lessons ? Do you think that the hairy woman in Clodd's book ever called out to her boy : ' The school bell is ringing ; make haste, or you will be late ' ? Oh ! no ; nothing of that sort 1 [In old Miracle Plays the first woman is represented as calling her boys in to wash their hands and brush their hair, because to-morrow will be Sunday and they will be examined on the Catechism. The future villain of the piece initiates his evil career by some such breach of good manners as taking off his cap with his left hand! These and countless other literary phenomena of the same kind go to show how far astray the unin- structed imagination goes in its presentation of historic data; and how necessary it is to take frequent opportunities of pulling it into line with the reality of things.] ever happened at that time. Yet the children did not grow up quite ignorant. We are going to have a little talk to-day about how people learned in those days, and what sort of teachers they had to make them learn. Why do the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens like climbing on their ropes ? Why is it found good for the health of children to climb the gymnasium ladder and cling to the bar by their hands ? Why do most of you enjoy doing so as soon as you have got a little practice at it ? Why do dogs not climb ladders or ropes, and why is it ...
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