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h Women as Astronomers. 1Vigge;Apropos of the fact that Miss Anna WIniock of the Harvard ob-ry'eyv *servato;y staff has collaborated with Prof. Simon Newcomb in computing j the orbit of a newly-found asteroid, ( R the New York Tribune pays a tribute s to the not inconsiderable number of , a women who have won fame and 0 (standing as astronomers, going back * l' as far as Sophia Brahe (1556-1643), | n, Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), and Eliza- * p 1 ; beth, the second wife of Hevelius. i 'v | The name of Sophia Brahe is more j j familiar than that of Maria Cunitz w l* j whc was the greater mathematician, b i Mary Somerville, Caroline Herschcl j r | (whose talents were simply tools I .pn for her selfish brothjt to use), and!tl3i-nMaria Mitchell, the special pride of I America—all these are well known 11 to every one. * Of today. DorotheairKlumpke, the Californian, who ha*' | °h[)0s3I.S-stdwei-ee[isnofnUbatlt;oh0 t a li A ii f n1been connected with the observatory of Paris for the last 14 years, whose thesis on the rings of Saturn won her a degree, and who is now at the head of a bureau for measuring star i plates for the new international chart of the heavans, is perhaps the most brilliant American woman astronomer, though Rose O’Halloran also has gifts. Mrs. Williamina Patou Fleming has been curator of the astronomical photographs at the Harvard observatory for the past, threo or four years—a very le-r | sponsible position. She has d!s-I covered stars not know n before. She has 12 assistants, among them Miss Maury, niece of Matthew’ F. Maury, in charge of the* naval ob- 1 servatory at Washington from 18*14 to 1861. Another in the M!ss Win-lock who has been working with Prof. Newcomb in computing the i orbit of the new asteroid. Miss Win-j lock Is the daughter of Prof. .Joseph j Winlock, for several years director of the Harvard observatory.Tn the astronomical department of several other American - universities there are women who measure star plates. Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Brown Davis, employed at the nautical almanac office in Washington. detected and corrected an error in one of La * Place’s tables, which had long been a stumbling block to astronomers, and some years ago. when Prof. Newcomb wished a com- (Is puter and held a competitive ox- * b amination for the place, Mrs. Davis , *•; outstripped a dozen men who at- j c tempted tho examination. In Eng- j d land the British astronomical as-: sociation has a number of women j h members. One of the best photo- 1 eahnoVtfihFrlt;dwc1V1-• •ngraphs of the total eclipse of the! Aai•un, taken in India two or thr.jeltlt; years ago, was by Mrs. E. Walter d Maunder, an amateur at that. The most eminent women astronomersbeiare I^idy Huggins and Miss Agnes ae »M. Clarke. Lady Huggins is tb'- ! tiI-so.nyhticwife of the spectrosccplst. Sir William Huggins, w'ho is gallant enough to share the credit with his wife in all published reports of his searches. Miss Clarke is an Irish h woman, and has been engaged in ob- tl servational work at the Cape of bGood Hope. A good showing. elRec«iDCS for Desserts and Otherwise.siQh
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Wabeno Northern Wisconsin Advertiser
Wabeno, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1902
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