The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

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 astr...

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Main Author: Dava Sobel
Format: Buku Teks
Language: Bahasa Inggris
Published: Penguin Books; Reprint edition 2016
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Online Access: http://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=99724
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