The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars /
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. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the residen...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Viking,
[2016]
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University Library Main Stacks, Lower Level
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QB34.5 .S63 2016
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