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Book Synopsis What Miss Mitchell Saw by : Hayley Barrett
Download or read book What Miss Mitchell Saw written by Hayley Barrett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the amazing true story of Maria Mitchell, America’s first professional female astronomer. Every evening, from the time she was a child, Maria Mitchell stood on her rooftop with her telescope and swept the sky. And then one night she saw something unusual—a comet no one had ever seen before! Miss Mitchell’s extraordinary discovery made her famous the world over and paved the way for her to become America’s first professional female astronomer. Gorgeously illustrated by Diana Sudyka, this moving picture book about a girl from humble beginnings who became a star in the field of astronomy is sure to inspire budding scientists everywhere.
Download or read book Maria Mitchell written by Maria Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Figuring written by Maria Popova and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists--mostly women, mostly queer--whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson. Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman--and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry, and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement.
Download or read book Maria Mitchell written by Maria Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rooftop Astronomer by : Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Download or read book Rooftop Astronomer written by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a clear autumn night in 1847. Maria Mitchell stood on the roof of her parents' house on the island of Nantucket, focusing her telescope on a faraway star. Suddenly she realized that the faint, blurry light wasn't a star at all—it was a comet! Maria Mitchell's discovery changed her life. She became famous as the first acknowledged woman astronomer in the United States. During her many travels, Maria came to realize that most women did not have the same opportunities as men. She thought that women should be encouraged to be anything they wanted to be. This was a lesson she taught her students as an astronomy professor at Vassar College and a message she stressed as the president of the Association for the Advancement of Women. From the rooftops of Nantucket to the great observatories of Europe, Stephanie Sammartino McPherson skillfully chronicles the life of this outstanding woman.
Book Synopsis Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science by : Renée L. Bergland
Download or read book Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science written by Renée L. Bergland and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England blossomed in the nineteenth century, producing a crop of distinctively American writers along with distinguished philosophers and jurists, abolitionists and scholars. A few of the female stars of this era-Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, and Susan B. Anthony, for instance-are still appreciated, but there are a number of intellectual women whose crucial roles in the philosophical, social, and scientific debates that roiled the era have not been fully examined. Among them is the astronomer Maria Mitchell. She was raised in isolated but cosmopolitan Nantucket, a place brimming with enthusiasm for intellectual culture and hosting the luminaries of the day, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Sojourner Truth. Like many island girls, she was encouraged to study the stars. Given the relative dearth of women scientists today, most of us assume that science has always been a masculine domain. But as Renee Bergland reminds us, science and humanities were not seen as separate spheres in the nineteenth century; indeed, before the Civil War, women flourished in science and mathematics, disciplines that were considered less politically threatening and less profitable than the humanities. Mitchell apprenticed with her father, an amateur astronomer; taught herself the higher math of the day; and for years regularly "swept" the clear Nantucket night sky with the telescope in her rooftop observatory. In 1847, thanks to these diligent sweeps, Mitchell discovered a comet and was catapulted to international fame. Within a few years she was one of America's first professional astronomers; as "computer of Venus"-a sort of human calculator-for the U.S. Navy's Nautical Almanac, she calculated the planet's changing position. After an intellectual tour of Europe that included a winter in Rome with Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mitchell was invited to join the founding faculty at Vassar College, where she spent her later years mentoring the next generation of women astronomers. Tragically, opportunities for her students dried up over the next few decades as the increasingly male scientific establishment began to close ranks. Mitchell protested this cultural shift in vain. "The woman who has peculiar gifts has a definite line marked out for her," she wrote, "and the call from God to do his work in the field of scientific investigation may be as imperative as that which calls the missionary into the moral field or the mother into the family . . . The question whether women have the capacity for original investigation in science is simply idle until equal opportunity is given them." In this compulsively readable biography, Renee Bergland chronicles the ideological, academic, and economic changes that led to the original sexing of science-now so familiar that most of us have never known it any other way. "The best thing in its line since Dava Sobel's Longitude. Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science tells a great, if too little known, story of an intellectual woman in 19th century New England. And it is beautifully told: I simply could not put it down. Anyone who cares about women's education in America should read this compelling and indispensable book." -Robert D. Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism "Renee Bergland recounts the story of Maria Mitchell's life and work in glorious and careful detail. One feels and hears the sounds of Mitchell's native Nantucket, her adopted Vassar, and comes to understand how one of the 'gentler sex' advanced astronomy in her day." -Londa Schiebinger, author of Has Feminism Changed Science?
Download or read book Maria Mitchell written by Maria Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Book Synopsis The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac by : United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office
Download or read book The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac written by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Astronomer Who Questioned Everything by : Laura Alary
Download or read book The Astronomer Who Questioned Everything written by Laura Alary and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of STEM, this inspiring picture book biography tells the extraordinary story of pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell. Maria longed to travel beyond her island of Nantucket. But how? Her father taught her that if you know how to read the stars, they can tell you where you need to go. They spent hours scanning the sky. Maria learned to use astronomers’ tools to measure and track stars. But what could she do with her skills? Then one day, she heard that a prize was being offered to the first person to find a new comet. Could this be the opportunity she was waiting for? From small island girl to renowned astronomer — Martha Mitchell’s story will leave kids starstruck!
Book Synopsis Maria Mitchell by : Beatrice Gormley
Download or read book Maria Mitchell written by Beatrice Gormley and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the first female science professor at Vassar College and the first American woman astronomer.
Book Synopsis Finding Wonders by : Jeannine Atkins
Download or read book Finding Wonders written by Jeannine Atkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “evocative and beautiful” (School Library Journal) novel “vividly imagines the lives of three girls” (Booklist, starred review) in three different time periods as they grow up to become groundbreaking scientists. Maria Merian was sure that caterpillars were not wicked things born from mud, as most people of her time believed. Through careful observation she discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented her findings in gorgeous paintings of the life cycles of insects. More than a century later, Mary Anning helped her father collect stone sea creatures from the cliffs in southwest England. To him they were merely a source of income, but to Mary they held a stronger fascination. Intrepid and patient, she eventually discovered fossils that would change people’s vision of the past. Across the ocean, Maria Mitchell helped her mapmaker father in the whaling village of Nantucket. At night they explored the starry sky through his telescope. Maria longed to discover a new comet—and after years of studying the night sky, she finally did. Told in vibrant, evocative poems, this stunning novel celebrates the joy of discovery and finding wonder in the world around us.
Book Synopsis Sweeper in the Sky; the Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America by : Helen 1914- Wright
Download or read book Sweeper in the Sky; the Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America written by Helen 1914- Wright and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Maria Mitchell written by Henry Albers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America'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.
Book Synopsis The Origins of Christian Democracy by : Maria Mitchell
Download or read book The Origins of Christian Democracy written by Maria Mitchell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering exploration of the origins of German Christian Democracy in the context of 19th- and 20th-century politics and religion
Book Synopsis Among the Stars by : Margaret Moore Booker
Download or read book Among the Stars written by Margaret Moore Booker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ahead of All Parting by : Rainer Maria Rilke
Download or read book Ahead of All Parting written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century. This Modern Library edition presents Stephen Mitchell’s acclaimed translations of Rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poet’s rich formal music and depth of thought. “If Rilke had written in English,” Denis Donoghue wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “he would have written in this English.” Ahead of All Parting is an abundant selection of Rilke’s lifework. It contains representative poems from his early collections The Book of Hours and The Book of Pictures; many selections from the revolutionary New Poems, which drew inspiration from Rodin and Cezanne; the hitherto little-known “Requiem for a Friend”; and a generous selection of the late uncollected poems, which constitute some of his finest work. Included too are passages from Rilke’s influential novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and nine of his brilliant uncollected prose pieces. Finally, the book presents the poet’s two greatest masterpieces in their entirety: the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus. “Rilke’s voice, with its extraordinary combination of formality, power, speed and lightness, can be heard in Mr. Mitchell’s versions more clearly than in any others,” said W. S. Merwin. “His work is masterful.”
Book Synopsis The Daring Daughters of Nantucket Island by : Jascin Nolan Leonardo Finger
Download or read book The Daring Daughters of Nantucket Island written by Jascin Nolan Leonardo Finger and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Divided into two sections, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the time before the idea of woman's sphere fully developed, and the nineteenth century when the predominant belief in American society was that there were two separate spheres for women and men, this book details the factors that allowed women on Nantucket to lead a life of independence and freedom, and compares their world to that of other maritime communities, as well as Quaker communities" -- cover, page [4]
