Attention Is discovery : the life and legacy of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt /

A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light years, a figure we can calculate because of the wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Von Mertens, Anna, 1973- (Author)
Other Authors:	Roberts, Jennifer L., 1969- (Photographer, Contributor), Knight, Rebecca Dinerstein (Contributor), Alves, João (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, > 1868-1921. Harvard College Observatory > Employees > Biography. Women astronomers > United States > Biography. Astronomers > United States > Biography. Cepheids. Astronomy > History. Astronomical photometry > History. Astronomy > United States > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Leavitt's Observable World / Anna Von Mertens
Women's Work / Anna Von Mertens
Colleagues and Characters: Leavitt, Fleming, Cannon, and Maury / Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Where We Are / Anna Von Mertens
Seeing Things: The Discovery of the Radcliffe Wave / Joao Alves
The Friends We Find / Anna Von Mertens
One Hundred Years of Cepheid Variables / Anna Von Mertens
Name and Present Occupation / Anna Von Mertens
Data's Presence and Erasure / Anna Von Mertens
Waiting to Be Seen: The Art and Science of Precovery / Jennifer L. Roberts
New, Confirmed, Known, Suspected / Anna Von Mertens ; Notes
Contributors - Acknowledgments.