Reads tagged with “Maria Mitchell”
Maria Mitchell and the Spider’s Web: A Touching Testament to Tenacity from America’s First Woman Astronomer
What a spider’s web and an infant’s hair have to do with celestial observation.
Emerson on What Beauty Really Means, How to Cultivate Its True Hallmarks, and Why It Bewitches the Human Imagination
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
October 1, 1847: Miss Mitchell’s Comet and How Scientists Stand in Solidarity
A heartening story of misfortune made right by the collective integrity of the scientific community.
Your Body is a Space That Sees: Artist Lia Halloran’s Stunning Cyanotype Tribute to Women in Astronomy
From Hypatia of Alexandria to Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a beguiling homage to the heroines of illuminating the cosmos.
How to Watch the Un-sunlike Sun: Solar Eclipse Tips from Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell
“It is always difficult to teach the man of the people that natural phenomena belong as much to him as to scientific people.”
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