The Glass Universe - Dava Sobel
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The Women Who Catalogued the Stars
Dava Sobel, known for earlier books on scientific history including Longitude, turns her attention to the Harvard College Observatory and the women employed there from the late 1800s onward to analyse glass photographic plates of the night sky. Their painstaking work classifying stars by brightness and spectral type laid groundwork still used in astronomy today.
The book follows figures such as Williamina Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon ...
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The Women Who Catalogued the Stars
Dava Sobel, known for earlier books on scientific history including Longitude, turns her attention to the Harvard College Observatory and the women employed there from the late 1800s onward to analyse glass photographic plates of the night sky. Their painstaking work classifying stars by brightness and spectral type laid groundwork still used in astronomy today.
The book follows figures such as Williamina Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Leavitt, tracing how their contributions shaped the field even as they worked largely outside formal scientific recognition of the time.
Recommended for readers interested in the history of astronomy, women in science, and narrative nonfiction more generally.
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