BOOKS - POPULAR SCIENCE - Стеклянный небосвод. Как женщины Гарвардской обсерватории и...
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Стеклянный небосвод. Как женщины Гарвардской обсерватории измерили звезды
Author: Дава Собел
Year: 2023
Format: FB2 | RTF
File size: 13 MB
Language: RU
Year: 2023
Format: FB2 | RTF
File size: 13 MB
Language: RU
In the mid-19th century, the Harvard Observatory began hiring women as calculators to interpret the results of nightly astronomical observations made by men. At first, these were the wives, sisters and daughters of full-time astronomers of the observatory, and then graduates of women's colleges joined them. When photography entered astronomical practice, women, in addition to computing, began to study stars captured at night on glass photographic plates. The "glass universe" of half a million photographic plates accumulated at Harvard over decades has allowed women to make remarkable discoveries that have gained worldwide recognition. They helped understand what stars are made of, classify them and find a way to determine interstellar distances. The book contains a lot of interesting facts, it contains many excerpts from letters, diaries and memoirs. In fact, this is the story of women whose contribution to science has changed our ideas about the stars and the place of mankind in the Universe. The employment opportunity provided to women at the Harvard Observatory since the end of the 19th century was atypical for a scientific organization, especially for such a male citadel as Harvard University.
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