THE GLASS UNIVERSE

Dava Sobel returns with the captivating, little-known true story of a group of women whose remarkable contributions to the burgeonin g field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or human computers, to interpret the observations made via telesc ope by their male counterparts each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astro nomers, ...[Read more]