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✓ Published: 15-Oct-2017
✓ Published: 15-Oct-2017
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October 12, 2017, in the Main Reading Room of the Linda Hall Library.nnThe lecture:nnIn the mid-19th century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women’s colleges–Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As
October 12, 2017, in the Main Reading Room of the Linda Hall Library.nnThe lecture:nnIn the mid-19th century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or “human computers,” to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women’s colleges–Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As
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