The Unforgotten Sisters Female Astronomers and Scientists before Car
Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to “my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science”, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with s
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Gabriella Bernardi
The Unforgotten Sisters Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel
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Gabriella Bernardi
The Unforgotten Sisters Female Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel
Gabriella Bernardi Torino, Italy
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Springer Praxis Books ISBN 978-3-319-26125-6 ISBN 978-3-319-26127-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26127-0
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Introduction
The Muses Urania and Calliope by Simon Vouet approximately 1634 March 4, 1845. MY DEAREST NIECE, * * * * * Have I understood you alright? Saw you the thermometer l½ above zero? the lowest I have heard of here was only 13 below freezing; but we are buried in snow! March 5th. – No alteration in the weather, nor in my affection for my dear niece and nephew and their ten children! the first is as cold as the latter is warm! * * * * * April 29, 1845. In his father’s library my nephew must have found a folio volume of H— (an astronomer and copper engraver), where, for every hour a distinct picture [of the
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Introduction moon] is given. In the Phil. Transactions for 1780, p. 507, is the first paper of William Herschel on the Moon. In 1787; 1792, p. 27; 1793, p. 206, measure of mountains, &c. Twenty-three years ago, when first I came here, I visited Madame W. (not von) once or twice, saw her observatory and a telescope, I believe not above 24-inch focal length; at that time she amused herself with modelling the heads of the Roman Emperors: her daughter, then a girl, was a
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