Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

Great Discoveries

George Johnson

176 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy. Their champion was the strong-willed astronomer Harlow Shapley. Another camp believed that the...

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