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From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right.
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world...
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world...
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English
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A biography of the first female science professor at Vassar College and the first American woman astronomer.
In the mid-1800s, a turbulent time when women were often thought to be unworthy of higher education, Maria Mitchell rose above the prejudices of the day to become America's first professional woman astronomer. This exciting biography tells the story of Maria Mitchell's life, her amazing achievements, and her faith that saw God's handiwork...
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English
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For the last four hundred years, Galileo has fascinated and inspired writers, theologians, playwrights, historians, and scientists. As the founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. Here James Reston, Jr., presents a lively, dramatic portrait of Galileo, one that not only takes us to the heart of this passionate, embattled, prickly, vain, arrogant,...
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers. Donovan Moore tells the story of Payne's life of determination against all the obstacles a patriarchal society erected against her"--
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 379 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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There is a major revolution sweeping astronomy as amateur astronomers, linked by the Internet, make important discoveries that are the envy of the professionals. In Seeing in the Dark, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers, capturing the exquisite experience when ancient starlight strikes the eye and incites the mind. He reports from around the globe - from England to the Chilean Andes - on the popular movement that's putting millions...
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"As a child, Maria Mitchell longed to see beyond her little island of Nantucket. With help from her father, she discovered that, if you knew how to read them, the stars could tell you where you were -- and where you needed to go. Maria spent hours on the roof of her house scanning the sky -- finding constellations, nebulae, meteors, double stars. When the King of Denmark offered a prize to the first person to find a new comet, she did just that. In...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, the nation's premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont, a dreamer and a man of deep faith, who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God, and speaks to ancient gods and believes they speak back. Irene Sparks is a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's...
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Llumina Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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231 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Nantucket's young astronomer finds herself in a life and death struggle to learn why she now has the gift of healing...and to discover what shocking treasure was brought to Nantucket on the whaler Columbine in 1732.
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Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Maria Mitchell's curiosity about the night sky led her to spend hours studying the stars. She discovered a comet as a young woman, winning an award from the King of Denmark for being the first person to discover a new comet using a telescope. Now famous as "the lady astronomer," Maria went on to become a professional astronomer, an unheard of achievement for a woman in the 19th century. She was the first woman to get any kind of government job when...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition 2014.
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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"A biography of Carl Sagan focusing on his childhood and culminating in the Voyager mission and the Golden Record"--Provided by publisher.
16) Maria's comet
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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As a young girl, budding astronomer Maria Mitchell dreams of searching the night sky and some day finding a new comet.
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Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways"--Jacket.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"Ever since Williamina Fleming was little she was curious, and her childhood fascination with light inspired her life's work. Mina became an astronomer in a time when women were discouraged from even looking through telescopes. Yet Mina believed that the universe, with its billions of stars, was a riddle--and she wanted to help solve it. Mina ultimately helped to create a map of the universe that paved the way for astronomers. Newbery Honor-winning...
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Publisher
Clavis Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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"Stars and planets! The astronomer knows a lot about them. With telescopes, computers, and a lot of patience, she studies the universe. Sometimes, she even travels to an observatory in the mountains, because up there, she can see space even better through the telescopes!"-- Publisher's website
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