Focus: The female touch.
Abstract
Between 1663 and 1900, there were a remarkable number of women who became interested in serious astronomy because they were wives, sisters or daughters of practising astronomers. Many of these women went on to make major contributions in their own right.
- Publication:
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Astronomy Now
- Pub Date:
- January 1998
- Bibcode:
- 1998AsNow..12...43C
- Keywords:
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- History of Astronomy: Biography