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Author : Helen Wright
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Total Pages : 253 pages
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Author : Helen 1914- Wright
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014227805
Total Pages : 280 pages
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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 2021-09-09 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.
Author : Helen Wright
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ISBN 13 : 9781883551438
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Gabriele Kass-Simon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208132
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Women of Science written by Gabriele Kass-Simon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of Science is a collection of essays dealing with contributions women have made to various scientific disciplines, written by women scientists in those disciplines. The areas covered are: astronomy, archaeology, biology, chemistry, crystallography, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics. The women who have written these essays are, for the most part, not professional historians, but rather scientific professionals who felt the necessity of researching the contributions women have made to the devlopment of their fields. The essays are unique, not only because they recover lost women who made significant contributions to their disciplines, but also because they are written with a depth of understanding that only a scientist working in a specific area can have. The essays will be of interest not only to students (especially women students) of science who may be unaware of the many contributions women have made, but also to readers of the history of science whoses texts more often than not fail to include the work of most women scientists.
Author : Lynne Ford
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646938216
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Third Edition written by Lynne Ford and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, Third Edition contains all the material a reader needs to understand the role of women throughout America's political history. This informative A-to-Z volume contains hundreds of entries covering the people, events, and terms involved in the history of women and politics. Entries include: Abortion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez The birth control movement Black Lives Matter Hillary Rodham Clinton Deb Haaland Domestic violence Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Glass ceiling League of Women Voters #MeToo movement Michelle Obama Sonia Sotomayor Elizabeth Warren and many more.
Author : Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0761382658
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
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.
Author : Robert L. Gale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507662
Total Pages : 558 pages
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Author : David Alan Grier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849365
Total Pages : 423 pages
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Author : National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings
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Author : Marilyn Ogilvie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135963436
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science written by Marilyn Ogilvie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this milestone reference combines "facts-fronted" fast access to biographical details with highly readable accounts and analyses of nearly 3000 scientists' lives, works, and accomplishments. For all academic and public libraries' science and women's studies collections.
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Author : Helen L. Morgan
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Maria Mitchell, First Lady of American Astronomy written by Helen L. Morgan and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: A biography of a feminist who was the first woman science professor at Vassar College and the first American woman astronomer
Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198769873
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book New York Scientific written by István Hargittai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in all the five boroughs of New York City - statues, busts, plaques, buildings, and other artifacts. In addition, it extends to some scientists and institutions currently operating in the city. New York has been known as a world center of commerce, finance, communications, transportation, and culture, but it also is a world center in science. The city is home to renowned universities and research laboratories, a museum of natural history and other museums related to science, a science academy, historical societies, botanical gardens and zoos, libraries, and a Hall of Science as well as a large number of world-renowned scientists. The book pays special attention to the role of this city in welcoming persecuted scientists and letting African-American and women scientists thrive. The book is presented in an informative and entertaining way, dotted with scientific gossip and anecdotes, and can be enjoyed even without the reader's actual presence in the city. Over eight hundred photographs illustrate the book. They may induce the reader to make their own discoveries in New York.
Author : Doris Simonis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135947457
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Scientists, Mathematicians and Inventors written by Doris Simonis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors provides biographies of 200 men and women who changed the world by leaving lasting legacies in the fields of science, mathematics, and scientific invention. It fills a gap in the biographical reference shelf by offering far more than basic facts about a scientist's life and work: each entry describes not only the immediate effects of the individual's discoveries, but also his or her impact on later scientific findings.
Author : Dean Miller
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1627125507
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Astronomers and Cosmologists written by Dean Miller and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a breakdown of the life and work of some of history's pioneers in the study of astronomy and cosmology are thoroughly explored. This volume provides excellent biographical sketches for trailblazers in the sciences. Articles are devoted to specific scientists, covering the contributions to their field, specifically addressing how their research, discoveries, and inventions impacted human understanding and experience. This historical review includes scientists from around the world and throughout the centuries, with a chapter specifically devoted to the top scientific contributors of the 21st century.
Author : John Dvorak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681773856
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have been thought of as harbingers of evil as well as a sign of the divine. Eclipses—one of the rarest and most stunning celestial events we can witness here on Earth—have shaped the course of human history and thought since humans first turned their eyes to the sky. What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein’s General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust. Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan “Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope’s death. In Mask of the Sun, acclaimed writer John Dvorak the importance of the number 177 and why the ancient Romans thought it was bad to have sexual intercourse during an eclipse (whereas other cultures thought it would be good luck). Even today, pregnant women in Mexico wear safety pins on their underwear during an eclipse. Eclipses are an amazing phenomena—unique to Earth—that have provided the key to much of what we now know and understand about the sun, our moon, gravity, and the workings of the universe. Both entertaining and authoritative, Mask of the Sun reveals the humanism behind the science of both lunar and solar eclipses. With insightful detail and vividly accessible prose, Dvorak provides explanations as to how and why eclipses occur—as well as insight into the forthcoming eclipse of 2017 that will be visible across North America.
Author : Beatrice Gormley
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ISBN 13 : 9781415548011
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Maria Mitchell written by Beatrice Gormley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 123 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.
