the glass universe

if you have read or seen the movie "hidden figures", this book seems to me to be along those lines.  "the glass universe:  how the ladies of the harvard observatory took the measure of the stars" by dava sobel chronicles how the women went from "human computers" to pioneers of discovering the galaxy.

sobel, a longtime science reporter, has also authored "longitude", "galileo's daughter", and "the planets".

an paragraph from the inside flap, "...elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs...this is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe." 

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