RPT Women who Measured the Stars with Dava Sobel

Edwin Hubble is world famous. What about Henrietta Swan Leavitt? She found a way to measure and classify the universe. In Dava's book "The Glass Universe" she references the half million glass slides Henrietta and other women used to document both the northern and southern skies.

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RPT Women who Measured the Stars with Dava Sobel

Sep 22, 2024

Edwin Hubble is world famous.
What about Henrietta Swan Leavitt? She found a way to measure and
classify the universe. In Dava's book "The Glass Universe" she
references the half million glass slides Henrietta and other women
used to document both the northern and southern
skies.

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