Download or read book Nantucket Sextant written by Mary Keating and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-03-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sextant is an astronomical instrument used for measuring angular distances of celestial bodies to determine latitude and longitude. Nantucket sits at latitude 41° 17’ 0. 46” N; longitude 70° 5’ 58.06” W. On Nantucket thousands of bodies are spinning in the same latitude/longitude as they prepare for the Christmas Stroll now in its fifth decade! Molly, a retired nurse, gives herself the gift of the Christmas Stroll after living alone since her husband, John, died of colon cancer. Weezie gives herself the gift of the Christmas Stroll after her best childhood friend, Maggie, dies unexpectedly. Andrea, a Quaker living on Nantucket, works at her shop Yarn Pastures. Andrea inherited the shop after the recent death of her Mother. Can grief be washed away by the tides of this beautiful island? What blessings or heartaches does the island of Nantucket hold for Andrea, Weezie, and Molly? Nantucket whalers used their sextants to navigate their way home under the stars. Andrea, Weezie and Molly find themselves without a sextant to guide them. Under the celestial skies of December they must see into their own hearts from every angle until the Christmas Stroll ends and maybe hope and Nantucket remain.
Download or read book Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science written by Renée L. Bergland and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England blossomed in the nineteenth century, producing a crop of distinctively American writers along with distinguished philosophers and jurists, abolitionists and scholars. A few of the female stars of this era-Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, and Susan B. Anthony, for instance-are still appreciated, but there are a number of intellectual women whose crucial roles in the philosophical, social, and scientific debates that roiled the era have not been fully examined. Among them is the astronomer Maria Mitchell. She was raised in isolated but cosmopolitan Nantucket, a place brimming with enthusiasm for intellectual culture and hosting the luminaries of the day, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Sojourner Truth. Like many island girls, she was encouraged to study the stars. Given the relative dearth of women scientists today, most of us assume that science has always been a masculine domain. But as Renee Bergland reminds us, science and humanities were not seen as separate spheres in the nineteenth century; indeed, before the Civil War, women flourished in science and mathematics, disciplines that were considered less politically threatening and less profitable than the humanities. Mitchell apprenticed with her father, an amateur astronomer; taught herself the higher math of the day; and for years regularly "swept" the clear Nantucket night sky with the telescope in her rooftop observatory. In 1847, thanks to these diligent sweeps, Mitchell discovered a comet and was catapulted to international fame. Within a few years she was one of America's first professional astronomers; as "computer of Venus"-a sort of human calculator-for the U.S. Navy's Nautical Almanac, she calculated the planet's changing position. After an intellectual tour of Europe that included a winter in Rome with Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mitchell was invited to join the founding faculty at Vassar College, where she spent her later years mentoring the next generation of women astronomers. Tragically, opportunities for her students dried up over the next few decades as the increasingly male scientific establishment began to close ranks. Mitchell protested this cultural shift in vain. "The woman who has peculiar gifts has a definite line marked out for her," she wrote, "and the call from God to do his work in the field of scientific investigation may be as imperative as that which calls the missionary into the moral field or the mother into the family . . . The question whether women have the capacity for original investigation in science is simply idle until equal opportunity is given them." In this compulsively readable biography, Renee Bergland chronicles the ideological, academic, and economic changes that led to the original sexing of science-now so familiar that most of us have never known it any other way. "The best thing in its line since Dava Sobel's Longitude. Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science tells a great, if too little known, story of an intellectual woman in 19th century New England. And it is beautifully told: I simply could not put it down. Anyone who cares about women's education in America should read this compelling and indispensable book." -Robert D. Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism "Renee Bergland recounts the story of Maria Mitchell's life and work in glorious and careful detail. One feels and hears the sounds of Mitchell's native Nantucket, her adopted Vassar, and comes to understand how one of the 'gentler sex' advanced astronomy in her day." -Londa Schiebinger, author of Has Feminism Changed Science?
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Download or read book On This Day in Nantucket History written by Amy Jenness and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nantucket is much more than beautiful beaches and sailboats. One day at a time, author Amy Jenness offers up quirky and fascinating stories of the people and events that shaped this remote island. On August 11, 1841, Frederick Douglass made his first antislavery speech at the Nantucket Atheneum. The Great Fire of July 13, 1846, devastated the island, forcing residents to rebuild what they lost. On December 5, 1981, a nor'easter stranded nearly two thousand visitors and forced seventeen pilot whales to come ashore. Read a story a day or month at a time. Celebrate an entire year of Nantucket history.
Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of the U S Coast and Geodetic Survey Showing the Progress of the Work During the Fiscal Year Ending with written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In the Heart of the Sea written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick. Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history. In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea, recently adapted into a major feature film starring Chris Hemsworth, is a book for the ages.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Director United States Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Secretary of Commerce written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Moments in Science written by Kendall Haven and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1996-02-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students can experience the thrill of discovery and learn important scientific principles with these readers theatre scripts and experiments. The 12 reproducible scripts re-create significant moments in the history of Western science. Each is linked to student experiments that imitate or parallel the experiments in the stories. Integrating science with history and a variety of subjects, the book covers topics in physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, rocketry, genetics, and other major fields of science. Tips for using readers theatre and step-by-step instructions for the experiments make this practical and effective resource.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Director written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Away Off Shore written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. “For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispensable book.” —Russell Baker In his first book of history, Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world. Beyond its charm, quaint local traditions, and whaling yarns, Philbrick explores the origins of Nantucket in this comprehensive history. From the English settlers who thought they were purchasing a “Native American ghost town” but actually found a fully realized society, through the rise and fall of the then thriving whaling industry, the story of Nantucket is a truly unique chapter of American history.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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