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Emily Winterburn

Teoksen The Stargazer's Guide: How to Read Our Night Sky tekijä

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As the curator of astronomy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Emily Winterburn was responsible for one of the world's most important astronomy collections. She has written for the BBC and Astronomy Now magazine and has appeared on the BBC's What the Ancients Did for Us, the Channel 4 News, and näytä lisää In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg. She lives in Yorkshire, England, with her husband and two children and works at the Leeds University History of Science Museum. näytä vähemmän

Includes the name: Dr Emily Winterburn

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female
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UK

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An interesting look at the scientific work of Caroline Herschel, an 18th century female astronomer. Winterburn makes a good argument that despite Herschel not having the same advantages and opportunities as her male counterparts, she nonetheless became an accepted and respected member of the scientific community.

I do have two complaints about Winterburn's writing:
1. She repeats herself. A lot.
2. She jumps back and forth in time so it can be a little hard to know what happened when.

To sum up, a flawed but rewarding read.
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3
Jäseniä
75
Suosituimmuussija
#235,804
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.4
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2
ISBN:t
8
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2

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