# Further Reading ### **Books**: - *Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Observatory, 1856-1954. (Available on [Hollis](https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1mdq5o5/TN_cdi_lindahall_digitalcollections_997926003405961)). - Bailey, Solon. *The History and Work of Harvard Observatory 1839-1927*. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1931. - Hirshfeld, Alan. *Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.* New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2014. - Hoffleit, Dorrit. [Women in the History of Variable Star Astronomy](https://www.aavso.org/files/publications_files/paper.pdf). Cambridge, MA: AAVSO, 1993. - Jones, Bessie Zaban and Lyle Gifford Boyd. The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839-1919. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. - Johnson, George. *Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe.* New York: W.W.Norton & Co., 2005. - Kuiper, Kathleen, ed. The *100 Most Influential Women of All Time*. New York: Britannica Educational Publishing, 2010. - Sobel, Dava. *The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the Measure of the Stars*. New York: Viking Books, 2016. - Yost, Edna. *American Women of Science.* New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1943. - Yount, Lisa. *A to Z of Women in Science and Math*. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1999. **Articles**: - Bailey, Wayne. "People on the Moon: Women." *The Strolling Astronomer* (Winter 2017), Volume 59, No. 1, p 48-57. - Guerra, Cristela. "'Women computers' often couldn't use Harvard's telescope. They changed astronomy anyway." *Boston Globe.* August 11, 2017. Print and online. [http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/08/10/women-computers-held-stars-their-hands/qfLYwpsNZdFNHyiY2igPNJ/story.html?s\_campaign=8315](https://platestacks.cfa.harvard.edu/) - Haley, Paul A. "Williamina Fleming and the Harvard College Observatory." *The Antiquarian Astronomer*, (June 2017), Issue 11, p. 2-32. - McEchern, Maria C. "Every Star Speaks for Itself." [Galactic Gazette](http://altbibl.io/gazette/) (September 5, 2013), - Nelson, Sue. "The Harvard Computers." *Nature*, Vol 455, p. 36-37(September 4, 2008), - Siegel, Ethan. "[Weekend Diversion: The Astronomer Who Brought Us the Universe.](https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/weekend-diversion-the-astronomer-who-brought-us-the-universe-ad3cbf8a7177#.gacqd44dt)" *Starts With a Bang* (March 8, 2015). - Smith, Lindsay . “Antonia Maury.” [Project Continua](http://www.projectcontinua.org/) (March 15, 2015): Ver. 1, - Smith, Lindsay. “Williamina Paton Fleming.” [Project Continua](http://www.projectcontinua.org/) (March 14, 2015): Ver. 1, - Smith, Lindsay. “Annie Jump Cannon.” [Project Continua](http://www.projectcontinua.org/) (March, 15, 2015): Ver. 1, - "Dec 14, 1921: Henrietta Leavitt Buried in Cambridge." *Mass Moments*, Dec 14, 2017. [https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/henrietta-leavitt-buried-in-cambridge.html](https://platestacks.cfa.harvard.edu/) **Plays/Film/TV/Cartoons/Radio:** - *Cosmos* featured many of these women in [season 1 episode 8, "Sisters of the Sun."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_the_Sun) - *Silent Sky*. Play by Lauren Gunderson and - "Forgotten Faces of Science: The Women Who Classified the Stars," William Wilson. [Forbes.com. ](http://www.forbes.com/sites/archenemy/2016/05/02/forgotten-faces-of-science-the-harvard-computers-comic/#53d65c567b3b)May 2, 2016. - "A Woman's Place at the Harvard Observatory." Lecture by Dava Sobel at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. May 3, 2017. [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/video/dava-sobel-womans-place-harvard-observatory](https://platestacks.cfa.harvard.edu/) - "Henrietta Leavitt: Unsung Heroine in Science" Produced by Columbia College Chicago. March, 2014. - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin interview with Owen Gingerich. Interview date: March 5, 1968. - "Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941): The Queen of Modern Astronomy." Rejected Princesses. 2015. - "'Hidden Figures' of Astronomy At Harvard Take Center Stage In Play About Women 'Computers'." Andrea Shea, WBUR.org. March 13, 2017. Audio link: [www.wbur.org/artery/2017/03/13/silent-sky-harvard-astronomy-women-computers](http://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/03/13/silent-sky-harvard-astronomy-women-computers) - "The Glass Universe," a presentation by Dava Sobel at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. March 16, 2017. - *The Ring of Truth*, episode 6, "Doubt." Public Broadcasting Associates, copyright 1987 - "Eclipse: Women of the Stars." Boston's WCVB 5 ABC, *Boston Chronicle*. Video: - "A Team of Women is Unearthing the Forgotten Legacy of Harvard's Women 'Computers.'" Newman, Alex, *Public Radio International's The Worl*d. July 27, 2017. Audio and web: - "Harvard's Human Computers Reach for the Stars." *HUB History* podcast episode 53.December 10, 2017. Audio and web: [http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/episode-58-harvards-human-computers-reach-stars/](https://platestacks.cfa.harvard.edu/) **Archives and Libraries:** [**Harvard Archives**](http://library.harvard.edu/hua)**:** - [Annie Jump Cannon Papers](http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=5182&histno=0) (HUGFP 125) - [Harvard Observatory Photographs](http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=5120&histno=1) (UAV 630.271) [**Schlesinger Library**](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library) at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute: - [Dorrit Hoffleit Papers](http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=5941&histno=1) (MC529) - "Women Working 1800-1930. “Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (1857-1911).” Harvard University Library Open Collections Program.