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The Glass Universe

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作者Dava Sobel
出版社Fourth Estate
ISBN9780007548194
出版时间2016-12-06
字数53.9万
分类进口书,外文原版书,科技,医学

读书简介

‘A biographical orrery – intricate, complex and fascinating’ The Observer ‘A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves’ The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science Before they even had the right to vote, a group of remarkable women were employed by Harvard College Observatory as ‘Human Computers’ to interpret the observations made via telescope by their male counterparts each night. The author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter and The Planets shines light on the hidden history of these extraordinary women who changed the burgeoning field of astronomy and our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.

目录

THE GLASS UNIVERSE

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE WOMEN WHO TOOK THE MEASURE OF THE STARS

Dava Sobel

Copyright

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART ONE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

PART TWO

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

PART THREE

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Picture Section

APPRECIATION

SOURCES

SOME HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY

GLOSSARY

A CATALOGUE OF HARVARD ASTRONOMERS, ASSISTANTS, AND ASSOCIATES

REMARKS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Also by Dava Sobel

About the Author

About the Publisher