The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143111345 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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–The Economist“At once an exhaustive and detailed account of a breakthrough moment in the world of science, as well as a compelling portrait of pioneering women who contributed as much to the progress of female empowerment as they did to the global understanding of both astronomy and photography.” —Harper’s Bazaar "Sobel traces a remarkable line in American female achievement…and captures the stalwart spirit of Pickering’s female finds." —USA Today “Sobel has distinguished herself with lucid books about scientists and their discoveries She vividly captures how her brilliant and ambitious protagonists charted the skies, and found personal fulfillment in triumphant discovery.” —The National Book Review “A fascina
Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 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. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.. Anna Palmer Dra
DAVA SOBEL is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter,The Planets, and The Glass Universe. A former New York Times science reporter and longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Audubon, Discover, and Harvard Magazine, she is the recipient of the National Science Board’s Individual Public Service Award and the Boston Museum of Science’s Bradford Washburn Award, among others.From the Hardcover edition.
The Glass Universe is a fantastic read 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 scientific detail while relaying these women’s stories, overall The Glass Universe is a fasci. 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 contemporaries. Between the 1880s and 1910s, Harvard CollegeObservatory under Pickering arguably. "Women in astronomy" according to 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 made and why they were important.