Website review: Women
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lucecorner discovered 9 months ago- From the page: "Ten great female philosophers: The thinking woman's women"
- tailkinker rated 5 weeks ago
- interesting page.
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- "Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece - Author Unknown"
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- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman - Virginia Woolf Female astronomers connected the dots By Simon Singh, Globe Correspondent February 1, 2005 When Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers suggested that there might be ''innate" differences between women and men that affect their success in the sciences, it brought to mind an extraordinary story concerning women scientists at Harvard at the start of the 20th century. In 1877, Edward Pickering became director of the Harvard College Observatory and initiated a relentless program of photographing the night sky. The observatory would take a half-million photographic plates in the decades to come, so one of Pickering's biggest challenges was to establish an industrial-scale system for analyzing them. Each plate contained hundreds of stars, and each speck would need to have its brightness evaluated and its location measured. Pickering, who led the observatory for 42 years, recruited a team of young women to act as computers, a term originally used to describe people who manipulated data and performed calculations. It was menial work in a field of research from which women were otherwise excluded. It was then unthinkable that women would be allowed to stay up through the night staring through telescopes in the freezing cold. Nevertheless, these mostly untrained women (known as "Pickering's harem") were able to make an enormous contribution to astronomy. They had brilliant minds and gained an intimate knowledge of the data, so they were able to make astounding discoveries. Read more here about specific women and their (largely unknown) contributions to astronomy.
