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

The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

Dava Sobel

336 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

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#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 in...

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