The glass universe: how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars
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Shares the story of the scientific contributions of a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-twentieth century, tracing their collection of star observations captured nightly on glass photographic plates.
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