Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals was written in 1818 by
the American astronomer Maria Mitchell. Her Quaker parents valued
education and insisted that their daughters received the same
education as their sons. Her father taught her astronomy at home.
At age twelve, she aided her father in calculating the exact moment
of annular eclipse. Mitchell discovered "Miss Mitchell's Comet"
(Comet 1847 VI, modern designation is C/1847 T1) in the autumn of
1847. She was the first professional woman astronomer in the United
States. She is credited for her discovery that sunspots are
whirling vertical cavities and not clouds as some had proposed.
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