ISBN-13: 9780393328561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str.
ISBN-13: 9780393328561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 176 str.
The answer to the controversy--a "yardstick" suitable for measuring the cosmos--was discovered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who was employed by the Harvard Observatory as a number cruncher, at a wage not dissimilar from that of workers in the nearby textile mills.Miss Leavitt's Stars uncovers her neglected history, and brings a fascinating and turbulent period of astronomical history to life.