The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition by Claire Brock

The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition

Icon Science

Claire Brock

208 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Soon making scientific discoveries in her ...

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