Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by Johnson, George

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393328561)

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Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by Johnson, George

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

$14.95
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by Johnson, George

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe--in the form of a "yardstick" suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous achievement, she was employed by the Harvard Observatory as a mere number-cruncher, at a wage not dissimilar from that of workers in the nearby textile mills. Miss Leavitt's Stars uncovers her neglected history.



Author: George Johnson
ISBN-10: 0393328562
ISBN-13: 9780393328561
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2006
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.86h x 6.14w x 0.43d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/06/2006 pg. 24

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