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The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel - The Lost Heroine of Astronomy (Hardcover)
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The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel - The Lost Heroine of Astronomy (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 230
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Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private
and academic life, through diaries, autobiographies for family
members, notebooks and observation notes. Yet for reasons unknown
she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788 to 1797.
As a result, we have almost no record of the decade in which she
made her most influential mark on science when she discovered eight
comets and became the first woman to have a paper read at the Royal
Society. Here, for the first time, historian Dr Emily Winterburn
looks deep into Caroline's life and wonders why, in the year
following the marriage of her brother and constant companion,
Caroline wanted no record of her life to remain. Was she consumed
with grief and jealousy? By piecing together - from letters,
reminiscences and museum objects - a detailed account of that time,
we get to see a new side to history's 'most admirable lady
astronomer' and one of the greatest pioneering female scientists of
all time.
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