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By Dale Anderson

ISBN-10: 0791072495

ISBN-13: 9780791072493

Profiles a Vassar professor who was once the most well-known astronomers within the usa on the finish of the 19th century and whose significant message to her scholars used to be "never stop to wonder."

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Albers, 110) While there, she was received by Urbain Leverrier, the head of the Paris Observatory and also a recipient of the Danish medal. Mitchell felt that his poor English and her poor French made it difficult for them to communicate, and they did not develop the comfortable, easy relationship she had enjoyed with the English astronomers. Nonetheless, she was asked to tea at the observatory and was given a tour and introduced to his assistants and family. In early January, Mitchell was ready to leave Paris.

Wright, 37) She seems not to have been intimidated by the fact that Airy was the head of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. Mitchell’s interests were not limited to mathematics and science. She enjoyed both poetry and prose and commented 33 34 MARIA MITCHELL The Nantucket Atheneum was and remains the cultural and intellectual center of Nantucket. Mitchell took a position as its first librarian in 1836 and used its library to teach herself calculus, foreign languages, physics, and astronomy.

The rules of the contest said that the discoverer had to report the comet to the Astronomer Earning a Medal: 1847–1855 47 The Pacific Bank, seen from a distance. Mitchell and her father set up their telescopes atop this building to study the stars together, and while she worked at the Atheneum Mitchell spent most of her evenings at this observatory. She adored her father and gained all her early education about astronomy and navigation from him. ” Mitchell’s comet was not seen in Europe until October 3rd, so she was clearly the first to identify it, but she had not immediately reported it — whereas the European astronomers who had seen it had done so.

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