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For example reference was made to ether filling the universe and making light waves possible but the book doesnt really explain how that error was corrected michaelsonmorely

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I would hope anyone interested in the subject would not object to a bit more science

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It was considered inappropriate to subject women to the rigors of nighttime observation work but there was no reason they couldnt do the essential mathematics

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Anna draper heiress to the draper fortune wanted to support her late husbands dedication to photographic study of the stars

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Through her support harvard amassed half a million glass photographic plates which could be studied in far more detail and precision than handdrawn records that preceded them

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Women in stem careers have been brought to the forefront by the 2016 movie “hidden figures” about a team of female african american mathematicians who played vital but unpublicized roles in nasa launches

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The title refers to the thousands of glass plates of star photographs that were collected and catalogued by pickering’s “harem”

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The story begins when observations were little more than sketching star positions by the naked eye and spectral analysis in its infancy all the way to photographic records from advanced telescopes in both the northern and southern hemispheres