Miss Leavitt's Stars : : the Untold Story of the Woman who Discovered how to Measure the Universe
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On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Prologue : the village in the canyon -- Black stars, white nights -- Hunting for variables -- Henrietta's law -- Triangles -- Shapley's ants -- The late, great Milky Way -- In the realm of the nebulae -- The mysterious K -- The cosmic stampede -- Ghost stories -- Epilogue : fire on the mountain.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: xiv, 162 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0393051285 :
SUBJECTS
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, -- 1868-1921.
Astrometry -- History.
Astronomical photometry.
Astronomy -- History -- 20th century.