![]() ![]() ![]() The observatory was a wholly disowned subsidiary and made their own rules and went their own way. You don’t think of Harvard as a place that’s particularly friendly to women, especially then. Women are traditionally underrepresented in science, so it’s interesting to look back to the 1870s to 1890s and find that as many as 20 women at a time were working at the Harvard Observatory. It’s about women and astronomy and also about a unique collection of half a million photographs on glass plates that are stored in the Harvard College Observatory. Tell us about the glass universe-is this the ultimate glass ceiling or something else altogether? ![]() Speaking from her home in East Hampton, New York, the author explains the improprieties of operating a telescope at night, how a maid became the first woman to hold a title at Harvard, and why women who excel in math and science are nothing new. In The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, Dava Sobel, bestselling author of books about Copernicus and Galileo’s daughter, shows how these women made their discoveries-despite discrimination, prejudice, and unequal pay. But at the end of the 19th century, a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory made some of the most important breakthroughs in our understanding of the cosmos. The roll call of great astronomers, from Copernicus to Hubble, has been dominated by men. ![]()
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