Miss Leavitt's Stars Pa

George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe-in the form of a "yardstick" suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous achievement, she was employed by the Harvard Observatory as a mere number-cruncher, at a wage not dissimilar from that of workers in the nearby textile mills. Miss Leavitt's Stars uncovers her neglected history. Book jacket.

Preface	p. xiii
Prologue: The Village in the Canyon	p. 1
Black Stars, White Nights	p. 9
Hunting for Variables	p. 23
Henrietta's Law	p. 34
Triangles	p. 45
Shapley's Ants	p. 59
The Late, Great Milky Way	p. 70
In the Realm of the Nebulae	p. 82
The Mysterious K	p. 99
The Cosmic Stampede	p. 109
Ghost Stories	p. 117
Epilogue: Fire on the Mountain	p. 127
Acknowledgments	p. 131
Notes	p. 133
Selected Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 151
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