The glowing tubes looked like faint, fairy lights." [Miss Bruce] volunteered to lend further assistance, not just to Harvard, but to astronomers everywhere, if Pickering would agree to help her choose the most deserving cases. The pond, which is really a dammed section of the Mill River, got its name from Jenny Lind, who sang at Northampton's Old First Church in 1851 (before the college existed) and declared the village "the paradise of America." “Look,” she telephoned her father to say “I got the story on the first woman to enlist. On Mondays, for example, when New Horizons signals home with a status update report, some staffers dress in green, the color that signifies optimal conditions. As the daughter and sister of puzzlers, I was raised on The New York Times crosswords and acrostics -- also diagramless, cryptic, puns & anagrams, and other varieties of word play. In 1916, during the first World War, she was assigned a story on the first female enlistee from Florida in the Naval Reserve. (This essay originally appeared on Powells.com.). . If you’re ready to start a book club , here’s 40 of the best book club questions, for fiction and nonfiction alike. Even now, people occasionally ask me, “What’s it about, really?”. But what ultimately enabled Pickering to hire women as paid observers was the generous patronage of another woman — Anna Draper, the widow of an astrophotography pioneer and herself an ardent proponent of astronomy. They do not even in their growth curve all one way but stand in edged clumps, curving against each other, all the massed curving blades making millions of fine arching lines that at a little distance merge to a huge expanse of brown wires, or bristles or, farther beyond, to deep-piled plush. . A century before Primo Levi’s beautiful case for how studying the universe brings humanity closer together, Pickering captured the unifying power of astronomy in his introduction to the list of awardees, published in the Scientific American Supplement that autumn: In the remainder of The Glass Universe, Sobel goes on to chronicle and celebrate the legacy of these extraordinary women, who opened up astronomy and cosmology for visionary scientists like Vera Rubin and Janna Levin. The back-to-school season finds me once again at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. An interesting look at the female computers at Harvard Observatory from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. Although I have no need to look back at the concordances of previous books, reviewing them recalls the feeling of immersion in those subjects. He estimated it would cost a towering $50,000 to build. When the foggy day came, he led boats out and pretended for sneak attacks. 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Dava Sobel’s new book, “The Glass Universe,” tells the story of a group of women at Harvard who conducted breakthrough research on the nature of stars and the universe. As the sender was someone I knew only passing well, and to whom I had never disclosed my puzzle mania, the message spilled the surprise. Born in Minneapolis in 1890, she was raised in New England and educated at Wellesley College. Apparently, his efforts went unappreciated on those occasions, as he told me that many of the corrections he offered were not incorporated in the final texts. Besides, I would not have attempted the acrostic before Monday night, by which time one of my students had already congratulated me on its content. While some environmentalists defended this or that endangered species of waterbird, Mrs. Douglas espoused a radical view: “It’s the whole thing that’s got to be preserved,” she said. It chronicles the amazing stories of women working at the Observatory as early as the late 19th century. Judge Stoneman was already stumping for the preservation of the Everglades before his daughter arrived. It doesn’t really go in depth into the mathematics involved in QM. Yesterday, as I finished reading the current issue of New Scientist, I turned over the last page and was struck by a watch advertisement on the back cover. Sobel writes: He believed women could conduct the work as well as men: “Many ladies are interested in astronomy and own telescopes, but with two or three noteworthy exceptions their contributions to the science have been almost nothing. If this labor has enlarged and enriched your own life this year, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your answers to the previous questions are all part of the Big Bang theory. A path that runs from campus around the pond and along a good stretch of the river provides the ideal hour-long daily walk. ", A-Word-A-Day also cited some of Mme. Each publishing house chooses its own translators, who seem to work in a vacuum. As my dear friend Will Andrewes pointed out at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the show boasts marvels, including the "Mona Lisa of horology," otherwise known as John Harrison's fourth timekeeper, or H-4. One party was much stronger than the other. “Pineland,” published in the Post on August 15, 1925, begins: “All around them the white brilliance of the Florida moon poured down upon the uneven road from the burial place, caught on the bright spear points of palmettos and struck into nakedness the shabby houses among stumps of pine trees of this outskirt of Miami. At that time she was the only surviving member of the original 1927 committee to put the Everglades under National Park Service protection. My original idea was to select from among the nerdy poems I’d collected over the years, such as “Pi” by Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, and “Cosmic Gall” by novelist John Updike, about neutrinos. But now he became a fact-checker in addition to his role as translator. I indeed disguised as one when I was active in a cyberspace forum, and caused myself some embarrassing troubles :). I not only appropriated it for the title, but also inserted it in the dialogue, so that three of the play’s five characters each allude at least once to Joshua’s command. Talk about the women at the observatory? Privacy policy. 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Complement it with the story of the black women mathematicians of NASA and this illustrated homage to women in science, then revisit the story of how astronomer Jocelyn Bell earned the exclamation “Miss Bell, you have made the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century.”. The Foundation's prizes reflect his various interests, and include youth awards to promising students in the sciences. I had exchanged brief comments with the Polish and Hebrew translators, but nothing to compare with Mingbo’s hunger for the nuances of meaning. By the end of its first year (of many, I hope), Meter will have showcased the works of a Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, and the current national Poet Laureate of the UK. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel Viking, 2016 hardcover, 336 pp. Sobel writes: Though Mrs. Fleming fully affirmed the principle of equality, she was not an American citizen, and the feminist struggle for the right to vote was not her fight. The Foundation's prizes reflect his various interests, and include youth awards to promising students in the sciences. You can beam some bit-love my way: 197usDS6AsL9wDKxtGM6xaWjmR5ejgqem7. I doubt he foresaw H-4's future as a museum piece. BBC Radio 4 was interested in my view of Galileo’s trial by the Inquisition, while New York City’s Channel 13 wanted me to discuss the significance of his book The Starry Messenger, published in 1610 to announce his startling telescope discoveries. But my second thought was regret that the bloodshed of Feb. 14 in Parkland, Florida had tied the name Marjory Stoneman Douglas to the violent deaths of teenagers and teachers. But shortly before the book’s release, his publisher summoned him to a meeting where “people were sitting around the room with their chins on the floor,” stunned by news of a new book by Leon Uris, the celebrated author of Exodus, called Mila 18. For technical questions or comments about WPR’s website, streaming or other digital media products, please use our Website Feedback form. Friends addicted to "Booknotes" had warned me that Mr. Lamb often pursued odd points of fact, such as the type of pen a writer employed. Professor Newcomb predicted that no exciting astronomical finds would turn up in the near or even the distant future. It crisscrossed the Atlantic twice in the 176os to prove its merit on ocean trials, but it had not gone anywhere since 1964, when the Admiralty lent it to the U. S. Naval Observatory. The eponymous Eduard Rhein (1900 - 1993) patented important inventions in the 1940s pertaining to radio, television, and LP vinyl records. The following week, the answers to the previous week's puzzles appeared, and sent another small electric charge through the members of my family. Whereas before I had only to look back at my own book to answer his questions, I now had to return also to the references I’d consulted in my research. It is a river of grass.”. A Penguin paperback edition followed in 2017. For her part, Williamina Fleming had a much more specific lens on equality. I was flattered, too, to think of the time and care invested in this new translation. How grateful I am to have your replies, telling me the truth, in the early morning. Mine is made of glass. Need to cancel a recurring donation? Chang'e didn't like the life on the Earth, so she, secretly took the whole elixir by herself. Book Review: 'The Glass Universe,' By Dava Sobel Dava Sobel's new book is a history of the unheralded women — called computers, rather than astronomers — … We performed first on a whim at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where we were both attending an astronomy meeting in September 2012. Curie today on The Writer's Almanac. While it's true I was raised Jewish in the Bronx, my ongoing association with the sisters has proved a continuing source of joy. From the lowest to the highest they are reliability, fluency, and elegance. Now, having smoothly executed the maneuver, it would go back to sleep for a few months while coasting toward its destiny. As the project developed into a mash-up of popular culture and current astronomy, I came up with “How the Planets Came to Earth.” The publisher strongly preferred “The Planets.” Rather than try to defend my title, I struck a bargain: I said I would go along with the predictable, pedestrian “The Planets” in exchange for a radical subtitle, namely no subtitle. On May 11, 1906 — just four days before her forty-ninth birthday — she received “perhaps the most pleasant shock of her life,” as Sobel aptly puts it: Fleming was elected honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society — an institution far ahead of its time in recognizing women’s scientific work. I had intended to say that the sea clocks at the heart of the show were all replicas, standing in for the venerated originals that reside at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich as star tourist attractions. I have no idea what snippets of my comments appear in the final cut, but I’ll find out when the program airs July 2 on Channel 13. BTW, I got to know my editor via the Internet as well, when we met in a nice website of used-book transaction. The straw men received most of the arrows and looked like hedgehogs in the end. All shades of red, pink, and even fuchsia, are proscribed. The Glass Universe - is this a play on "The Glass Ceiling" or is it a description of the work that these bright, highly educated, and motivated women did with the glass photographic plates of images of the stars? He invited her to contribute to a series of books about the rivers of America, and suggested the Miami River. Today, November 7, is the birthday of the one woman scientist whose name is familiar to nearly everyone. I learned to hold so still that the motion sensor judged the room unoccupied, and the lights switched off automatically. To make our correspondence less serious, I attach a picture of my adorable and creative daughter. If this labor has enlarged and enriched your own life this year, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. I was so taken aback that for a moment I couldn't remember the date. Among the “Harvard computers” were Antonia Maury, who had graduated from Maria Mitchell’s program at Vassar; Annie Jump Cannon, who catalogued more than 20,000 variable stars in a short period after joining the observatory; Henrietta Swan Leavitt, a Radcliffe alumna whose discoveries later became the basis for Hubble’s Law demonstrating the expansion of the universe and whose work was so valued that she was paid 30 cents an hour, five cents over the standard salary of the computers; and Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, who became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard-Radcliffe. As the work may be done at home, even from an open window, provided the room has the temperature of the outer air, there seems to be no reason why they would not thus make an advantageous use of their skill.”, Pickering felt, furthermore, that participating in astronomical research would improve women’s social standing and justify the current proliferation of women’s colleges: “The criticism is often made by the opponents of the higher education of women that, while they are capable of following others as far as men can, they originate almost nothing, so that human knowledge is not advanced by their work. From you, I get all my puzzles solved. Gingerich is an acknowledged world authority on Copernicus, which makes his rendition of the role an oversized in-joke for our audiences. Part One of my new book, The Glass Universe, concerns “The Colors of Starlight.” It opens with a quote about stellar colors from the first lady of American astronomy, Maria Mitchell: The glass-plate photographs that the Harvard women examined in their studies were particularly sensitive to light from the blue-violet end of the visual spectrum – a fact that has sensitized me to violet light wherever it appears. While they were supposed to be on duty by turns, they went out together one day and scorched the Earth. Pickering determined that the ideal telescope would be a lavish 24 inches in diameter. Finding another venue is proving even more difficult than I had imagined, but meanwhile the play continues to be heard. A few weeks ago the university's oral historians asked me to recall my experience on the program. That was one way to look at the sheet of glass propped up in front of her. Sobel writes with an eye for a telling detail and an ear for an elegant turn of phrase. To order a copy for £12.99 go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call … An ongoing, ever widening search has brought in poets to treat topics in many fields of science, from mathematics and mycology to astronomy, geology, pathology, physics, chemistry, and climate change. The play I wrote about Copernicus’s campaign for the heliocentric worldview took its title from the Bible, And the Sun Stood Still. After Hou Yi killed nine thunderbirds, the heaven emperor became. (Will is standing next to me at center in the photo, directly--and appropriately--under the word "Clocks" in the poster.). By May, he had returned to me in earnest, with new and longer lists of questions. Copernicus had set out to correct certain abuses in the practice of astronomy, and wound up reorganizing the solar system as a side effect of that effort. But, fortunately for me, the book’s continuing popularity had led to a tenth-anniversary edition in 2005, with a foreword by astronaut Neil Armstrong, and this new edition was enjoying a new round of attention from international publishers. As an artist, Bruce must have been particularly put off by such poverty of imagination — the artist necessarily comes at life from the very opposite perspective, which Georgia O’Keeffe memorably articulated: “Making your unknown known is the important thing — and keeping the unknown always beyond you…” Maria Mitchell expressed the same sentiment from the standpoint of science: “The world of learning is so broad… We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” Bruce surely saw the common ground between art and science in this unflinching insistence that there are always more unknowns to be made known, so she promptly gave Pickering all of the $50,000 needed for the new telescope. Most times, moonstruck earthlings can easily see our satellite's dark side without benefit of a rocket ship or even a telescope. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 3 years old. In addition to the interaction with truly motivated students, I enjoy my friendships with a few faculty members and the physical beauty of the campus, including Paradise Pond. The Glass Universe: How Harvard’s Unsung Women Astronomers Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos Decades Before Women Could Vote The untold story of the trailblazing women scientists and patrons who catalogued the stars and helped prove that the universe is expanding. You mention that "Yet the Earth, too, is decelerating, by a few hundredths of a second annually" (p.114) but on the next page, it becomes "the almost imperceptible decrease in the Earth's rotation amounts to a mere millisecond every fifty years". Instead, the editors challenged me to commission all new work. Pickering was a visionary man in many regards. The cover of "The Glass Universe," by Dava Sobel. Much like the movie Glass, Watchmen is an origin story that is … Many of them have the time and inclination for such work, and especially among the graduates of women’s colleges are many who have had abundant training to make excellent observers. The millennia-long heritage of these and other stories he sent me were, for Mingbo, “one of the reasons I cherish this country so much.” He encouraged me to visit, perhaps in connection with the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing, but I didn’t think such a thing would be possible. His mathematical work in restricting the planets to perfectly circular motion defined his vision of “a more perfect heaven.” I liked the sound of that. My own experience of translating the letters of Galileo’s daughter had helped me appreciate the difficulty of selecting a single right word from among any number of synonym candidates. Here's an example. Heller visited my high school in the early 1960s when Catch-22 was an international bestseller, and told us the memorable story of its naming and re-naming: He had always called the book “Catch-18” while writing it, he said, and every instance of the phrase “Catch-22” had appeared as “Catch-18” in his manuscript. Pickering ran the observatory for more than forty years, from 1877 until his death in 1919. Instead of communing with the Glades, Mrs. Douglas spoke for them in tireless efforts at public education, from her position as founder (in 1969) and first president of the group she named “Friends of the Everglades.” Time and again she rescued the Glades from plume hunters who ransacked the rookeries for the millinery trade, from developers who wanted to erect bridges, suburbs, and even a jetport on the marshes. So the weaker army got tons of free arrows, which helped to beat the strong enemy :). This particular text from the Book of Joshua in fact posed a threat to Copernicus during his lifetime, and made him delay publication of his book till his old age. As far as I understand, these two sentences cannot be true at the same time. It has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. Since “one comet is so much like another,” he asserted “that the work which really occupies the attention of the astronomer is less the discovery of new things than the elaboration of those already known, and the entire systematization of our knowledge.”. An old Chinese translator once defined three stages that a translated work should achieve. I determined to do better by the next book, concerning Copernicus. Nearly one hundred responses met the October deadline. About The Glass Universe. I made that same labeling mistake once myself, and was embarrassed by it, so I remain sensitized to the important difference between the far side of the Moon, forever hidden from the earthbound among us, and the dark side, which changes all the time as the Moon circles the Earth. So Hou Yi, after experiencing lots of tribulation, obtained some elixir from the heaven, elixir had enough dosage to allow two persons to. Biblical passages are fair game in book titles, even for books with scant religious content. While it was helpful to peruse this after finishing The Glass Universe, I feel it would have been more useful at the front of the book instead of after I was finished reading. That book, which she wrote out in longhand before hiring a typist, brought her great acclaim and united her name with the Everglades forever. Although a simple "Find" command can turn up all the inadvertent repetitions in an article or a chapter, "Find" falls short in the face of a lengthy book project with several parts. This new, unknown component, which comprises ~68% of the matter-energy content of the universe, will determine the ultimate fate of all. Warm and dry indoors in her long woolen dress, she threaded her way among the stars. I meant to praise the copies for being fully functional and exact in every detail. What’s more, I had intended the book expressly for people who knew little or nothing about astronomy. (A generation earlier, Maria Mitchell had made a parallel case for why women make better astronomers than men.). instead, where she has lived lonely ever since. On July 16, the en-route-to-Pluto team celebrated an important milestone: Their New Horizons spacecraft had arrived at a point in space just one year shy of Pluto flyby. He seemed so interested that I couldn't resist asking him a question: "Are you a dancer, Brian?" The publication of a new work by Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall, called Knocking on Heaven’s Door, made the way safe for A More Perfect Heaven. Mingbo was translating purely for the love of books. The origin of the force that is pushing the universe apart is a mystery, and astronomers refer to it simply as "dark energy". The hard part was remembering to make the entries, but after a while it became habit. “Galileo’s Moon,” an episode in the PBS series called “Secrets of the Dead,” describes the genesis of what was purported to be Galileo’s own proof copy of The Starry Messenger, complete with his hand-painted watercolors depicting the cratered face of the Moon. This book was translated and published by another company in 2000, but it turns out to be not very satisfactory, so I was asked to redo the translation. Mingbo often apologized for asking so many questions, but of course I was thrilled to have them—and to have my own private tutor in Chinese lore. I was pleased to be invited to speak recently at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington for the opening of "Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude." In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, I receive a small percentage of its price. The book was “Galileo’s Daughter” from the proposal through the first draft and the greatly revised second draft. “Do you think I could get away with calling it a river of grass?” Marjory asked the state hydrologist, the first expert she consulted in her research. Chang'e didn't like the life on the Earth, so she secretly took the whole elixir by herself. Mingbo’s work ethic guaranteed the level of effort he would devote to the task. I thought, What are the odds of that? 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