Download or read book Description of the Observatory at Cambridge Massachusetts written by William Cranch Bond and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History and Description of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College written by William Cranch Bond and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Latitude of the Cambridge Observatory in Massachusetts Determined from Transits of Stars Over the Prime Vertical Observed During the Months of December 1844 and January 1845 by William C Bond James D Graham and George P Bond written by Benjamin Peirce and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History and Description of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College and Results of Astronomical Observations Made at the Observatory of Harvard College written by William Cranch Bond and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1855 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report of the Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College Appointed to Visit the Observatory written by Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) Committee of the Overseers and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College written by Harvard College Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of quarto publications, exclusive of the Annals , made by the officers of the observatory from 1877 to 1896, with references to the work of the Blue Hill observatory from 1885 to 1895: v. 30, p. 3-8.

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Download or read book The Glass Universe written by Dava Sobel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science Friday Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A joy to read.” —The Wall Street Journal 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 resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges—Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The “glass universe” of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades—through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography—enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard—and Harvard’s first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is 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.

Download or read book Report of the Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College Appointed to Visit the Observatory written by Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.) Committee of the Overseers and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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