The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M7MACPP |
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| Number of Pages | : | 485 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of a group of remarkable women who, through their hard work and groundbreaking discoveries, disproved the commonly held belief that the gentler sex had little to contribute to human knowledge.. The "glass universe" of half a million plates that Harvard amassed in this period - thanks in part to the early financial support of another woman, Mrs. Number-one New York Times best-selling author Dava Sobel returns with the captivating, little-known true story of a group of women whose remarkable contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.In the mid-19th century, the Harvard College Ob
The Glass Universe is a fantastic read Cindy B. (ThoughtsFromAPage) The Glass Universe meticulously delineates the previously little-known story about the contributions of a group of women hired by the Harvard College Observatory as “human computers” beginning in the mid-1800’s. While Dava Sobel at times employs incredible scie. Horace Smith said Women (and men) who changed how we look at the universe. Subtitled "How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars",Dava Sobel's new book widely covers the contributions and lives of the women of theobservatory during the directorships of Edward C. Pickering and Harlow Shapley, whilenot neglecting their male c. Women in astronomy Eden Eskin This well researched book came as a revelation to me about the many women to whom we owe our modern understanding of astronomy. Dava Sobel makes the individual women and men come alive on the page. She also writes so that the lay person gains a sense of the way discoveries were