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Glass Universe : How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel (2016, Compact Disc)

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The product is an unabridged audiobook of "The Glass Universe" by Dava Sobel, published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group in 2016. It is a compact disc format and is in English. The book tells the story of the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory who made significant contributions to the measurement of the stars. It falls under the genres of biography & autobiography, science, and history, with a focus on the modern era of astronomy. The audiobook is a valuable resource for those interested in the history and science of astronomy, presented in an accessible and engaging format.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

ISBN-10073528864X

ISBN-139780735288645

eBay Product ID (ePID)17038841275

Product Key Features

Book TitleGlass Universe : How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

TopicModern / 20th Century, General, History, Astronomy

Publication Year2016

LanguageEnglish

GenreScience, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorDava Sobel

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 In.

Item Length5.9 In.

Item Width5.1 In.

Item Weight9.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes10 vols.

Dewey Decimal522/.19744409252

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, t he "inspiring" ( People ), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 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.