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by Dava Sobel
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The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard The Glass Universe meticulously delineates the previously littleknown story about the contributions of a group of women hired by the Harvard College Observatory as “human computers” beginning in the mid1800’s The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the The Glass Universe meticulously delineates the previously littleknown story about the contributions of a group of women hired by the Harvard College Observatory as “human computers” beginning in the mid1800’s Book Review The Glass Universe By Dava Sobel NPR Book Review The Glass Universe By Dava Sobel Dava Sobels new book is a history of the unheralded women — called computers rather than astronomers — who worked at the Harvard College Observatory studying cataloging and classifying stars Women Astronomers Shine In The Glass Universe The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars At the outset this group included the wives sisters and daughters of the resident astronomers but by the 1880s the female corps included graduates of the new womens colleges—Vassar Wellesley and Smith The Glass Universe Harvards Women Who Revolutionized The Women Computers Who Revolutionized Astronomy At the turn of the 20th century assistants at Harvard’s observatory took to mapping the stars and paved the way for women in science Jenny The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel When quizzed about the origins of modern scientific computing many of us will think of the vast ENIAC installation completed at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard The Glass Universe meticulously delineates the previously littleknown story about the contributions of a group of women hired by the Harvard College Observatory as “human computers” beginning in the mid1800’s The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel About The Glass Universe In the midnineteenth 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
