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Miss Leavitt's stars: the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe
Miss Leavitt's stars: the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe
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Johnson, George, 1952 Jan. 20-
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Publication Date
c2005
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1st ed.
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Prologue : the village in the canyon
Black stars, white nights
Hunting for variables
Henrietta's law
Triangles
Shapley's ants
The late, great Milky Way
In the realm of the nebulae
The mysterious K
The cosmic stampede
Ghost stories
Epilogue : fire on the mountain.
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Astrometry
Astrometry -- History
Astronomical photometry
Astronomy
Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
History
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, 1868-1921
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9780393051285
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