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The Glass Universe
by Dava Sobel
The Harvard Observatory women who classified the stars from glass plates: Cannon, Leavitt, Payne. Sobel's elegant history.
Read it if…
you want the women who mapped the heavens.
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Skip it if…
you want physics.
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Three things you will actually use
- Patient work founded cosmology.
- Leavitt's law measured the universe.
- Honor the classifiers.
Do this first
Read the chapters on Henrietta Leavitt.
Our verdict
Sobel's observatory women.
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