Women Astronomical Computer

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives...

Until the application of dry-plate photography to astronomy, very few women were involved in astronomical observations. Then, from the mid-1880s to the mid-1950s, women, especially at Harvard College Observatory, contributed more data on variable stars...

"A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light...

The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. –