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In Pursuit of a Shadow - By a Lady Astronomer (Paperback)
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In Pursuit of a Shadow - By a Lady Astronomer (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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The title page calls the author of this 1888 work 'A Lady
Astronomer'. She was Elizabeth Brown (1830 99), and the shadow she
was pursuing was the eclipse of the sun on 19 August 1887, which
could be best observed in northern Russia. Brought up by her father
to make weather observations and to use a telescope, she became a
member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society - on behalf of which
she undertook her Russian expedition - and was later active in
founding the British Astronomical Association. (The Royal
Astronomical Society did not at this point admit women.) The book
describes her journey, from her arrival at Hull to meet her
travelling companion, to Russia, and home again. The actual viewing
of the eclipse, at Kineshma, 200 miles north-east of Moscow, was
spoiled by cloud cover, but her lively and observant account of her
adventures is a fascinating record by a pioneering female
scientist."
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