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- Author: George Johnson
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393328562
- ISBN-13: 9780393328561
- Format: 15.6 x 20 x 1.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe--in the form of a "yardstick" suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous achievement, she was employed by the Harvard Observatory as a mere number-cruncher, at a wage not dissimilar from that of workers in the nearby textile mills. Miss Leavitt's Stars uncovers her neglected history.
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- Author: George Johnson
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393328562
- ISBN-13: 9780393328561
- Format: 15.6 x 20 x 1.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe--in the form of a "yardstick" suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous achievement, she was employed by the Harvard Observatory as a mere number-cruncher, at a wage not dissimilar from that of workers in the nearby textile mills. Miss Leavitt's Stars uncovers her neglected history.
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