The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel (PDF)

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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves’ The Economist#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in scienceIn 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. 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. 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 .Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries,and 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.

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⭐A truly fascinating tale. One cannot but marvel at the meticulous work carried out with a dedication perhaps unimaginable these days

⭐I’ve known about the Harvard women computers for a long time. Was fun to finally learn the true story behind them. Excellent.

⭐The print is too small and very hard to read

⭐Excellent book

⭐An amazingly documented story of the contribution of women to the detailed mapping and interpretation using photographic plates of the starlight in the universe at around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries..

⭐Loved this book. Lots of details on the lives and work of much underrated female astronomers.

⭐General interest

⭐Excellent !

⭐I was getting into the book, until it mentioned that Josef Fraunhofer discovered the dark lines. No he didn’t…

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