![]() ![]() Still, if you persist, you will be rewarded with wonderfully intimate moments. Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating The Observer A peerless. Their work was amazing and gave us so much insight into our vast universe. At times, the author describes her heroines’ tedious work in such opaque detail that the reader feels as if she, too, deserves to be paid for her efforts. Im fascinated by the dedication and motivation of the women in this book. Even by the book’s end, we don’t feel as if we know these women as individuals. Like the women who contented themselves with classifying the brightness of hundreds of thousands of stars, Sobel seems more concerned with conveying raw data than theorizing about her findings. But that purpose seems too narrow to justify the book as a whole. As a defense of Pickering, The Glass Universe is fairly convincing. ![]() It takes a talented writer to interweave professional achievement with. ![]() For most of the book, we can’t tell whether Sobel’s point is that the women were being abused or provided a nurturing space in which they could prove their intellectual prowess. The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars Industry Reviews. Sobel doesn’t provide much guidance in helping us figure out which of Pickering’s female 'computers' were brilliant thinkers and which merely keen-eyed and persistent. ![]()
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