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The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel´s Astronomical Ambition
Claire Brock
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Description for The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel´s Astronomical Ambition
Paperback. The story of Britain's first female professional scientist, Caroline Herschel Series: Icon Science. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; BGT; PGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.
Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific and popular fame. She was awarded a salary by George III in 1787 - the first woman in Britain to make her living from science.
But, as a woman in a male-dominated world, Herschel's great success was achieved despite constant frustration of her ambitions. Drawing on original sources - including Herschel's diaries ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Icon Science
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785781667
SKU
V9781785781667
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99-3
About Claire Brock
Claire Brock is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. She was awarded the British Society for the History of Science's Singer Prize for an article on the Victorian scientist and writer Mary Somerville. Dr Brock was recently awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (2012-2014).
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