All About Glass

All About Glass

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Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe | Behind the Glass Lecture
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Not initially called astronomers, they were assistants, or human "computers," or Pickering’s Harem after Edward Pickering, a director of the Harvard Observatory. According to Dava Sobel, writing in The Glass Universe, they were the ladies of the Harvard Observatory who took measure of the