03898cam a2200601 i 4500 24699 24699 952469237 OSt 20190501235142.0 160627t20162016nyuaf b 001 0deng 2016029496 2016030208 9780670016952 hardcover 0670016950 hardcover (OCoLC)952469237 (OCoLC)964068161 nmt pcc n-us-ma 522/.19744409252 23 522.19 .S677g Sobel, Dava, author 518 The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars / Dava Sobel New York, New York : Viking, [2016] ©2016 xii, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index Part one: The colors of starlight. Mrs. Draper's intent ; What Miss Maury saw ; Miss Bruce's largesse ; Stella nova ; Bailey's picture from Peru -- Part two: Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me!. Mrs. Fleming's title ; Pickering's "harem" ; Lingua franca ; Miss Leavitt's relationship ; The Pickering fellows -- Part three: In the depths above. Shapley's "kilo-girl" hours ; Miss Payne's thesis ; The Observatory Pinafore ; Miss Cannon's prize ; The lifetimes of stars -- Some highlights in the history of the Harvard College Observatory -- A catalogue of Harvard astronomers, assistants, and associates The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.-- Provided by publisher In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as "human computers" to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography, enabled the women to discern what stars were made of, divide the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and find a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Sobel tells 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 Harvard College Observatory 519 Harvard College Observatory. fast (OCoLC)fst00541468 519 1800-1999 fast 520 Women in astronomy Massachusetts History 521 Women mathematicians Massachusetts History 522 Astronomy History 19th century 523 Astronomy History 20th century 524 Astronomy. fast (OCoLC)fst00819673 525 Women in astronomy. fast (OCoLC)fst01177831 526 Women mathematicians. fast (OCoLC)fst01178130 527 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. bisacsh 528 SCIENCE / Astronomy. bisacsh 529 SCIENCE / History. bisacsh 530 SCIENCE / History 530 SCIENCE / Astronomy 529 HISTORY / Women 531 Massachusetts. fast (OCoLC)fst01204307 532 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 533 Online version: Sobel, Dava. Glass universe. New York : Viking, 2016 9780698148697 (DLC) 2016030208 .b146973057 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2017-03-22 30.00 1 522 SOBE 36630 2017-07-01 2017-06-13 2017-03-22 BOOK