Publications of the Vassar College Observatory
Author: Vassar College. Observatory
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 394
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 394
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caroline Ellen Furness
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Albers
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's first woman astronomer was born in 1818 on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Patiently observing the skies with her father as early as age twelve, Maria eventually discovers a telescopic comet. For this 1847 feat, she is awarded a Gold Medal by the King of Denmark. Other honors and world fame follow. When Vassar College opens in 1865, Maria is there as its first Professor of Astronomy. She remains to serve under three Vassar presidents. A passionate seeker of truth and wisdom, Maria Mitchell's keen views are revealed in her journals. Her growth as an advocate for women's rights is dramatically portrayed. At eighteen she is hired as the first librarian for the Nantucket Atheneum, where she educates herself studying the books she orders. Twenty years later, we see her, now internationally renowned, a welcome guest in salons of the world's leading scientists and literary figures. Maria's tales of daring travel by bumpy stagecoach, Russian droskys, Mississippi River boats and Atlantic side-wheelers are here, as are her perceptive accounts of the celebrities of her day. Journeying westward alone, escorting a Chicago debutante on her Grand Tour, taking a teenage nephew to Russia (complete with daunting, sometimes comical adventures) all come to life. She organizes Vassar students to observe meteors and undertake eclipse expeditions. In her journals we see Maria Mitchell grow under the tutelage of her father in a warm and active family.
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 92
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caroline Ellen Furness
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dava Sobel
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-12-06
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 069814869X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom #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 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.
Author: Frederick R. Chromey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-27
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 052176386X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a lively yet rigorous and quantitative approach, this textbook introduces the fundamental topics in optical observational astronomy for undergraduates. It explains the theoretical foundations for observational practices and reviews essential physics to support students' mastery of the subject. Student understanding is strengthened through over 120 exercises and problems.
Author: Karen Van Lengen
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781568983493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on authoritative tours of two prestigious colleges, Vassar and Dartmouth. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks of these American college campuses distinguished for landmark buildings-Vassar showcasing a developing expression of changes in women's education and Dartmouth revealing the provincial design roots and rural setting of the prominent Ivy League college.