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The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars / Dava Sobel

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory employed women as human computers to analyse photographic glass plates. These researchers developed stellar classification systems and made fundamental discoveries regarding the composition and distance of stars.

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