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The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars

by Dava Sobel

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory employed women as human computers to analyse photographic glass plates. These researchers developed stellar classification systems and made fundamental discoveries regarding the composition and distance of stars.

Accession 28335 ISBN 9780670016952 Publisher Viking
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