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Hardcover Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens Book

ISBN: 0300239890

ISBN13: 9780300239898

Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens

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A fascinating look at the history of astronomy, through the lens of Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949)--a woman whose fascination with Dante's Divine Comedy led her to become an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars in the Victorian era.

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