![]() ![]() It is nice that they got some recognition for their contributions, although not always as much as they deserved.Overall, the book was a bit dry. Their dedication and achievements are inspirational. ![]() This book looks at the role women played, especially but not exclusively, at Harvard in mapping the stars and in developing an understanding of their characteristics - size, brightness, composition - often developing formulae that remain useful today. ![]() Įlegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries,Īnd memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of a group of remarkable women whose vital contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe. They helped discern what the stars were made of, divided them into meaningful categories for further research, and even found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the women turned to studying images of the stars captured on glass photographic plates, making extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science ![]() The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves’ The Economist ![]()
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