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Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries) / George Johnson | |
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | |
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“A short, excellent account of [Leavitt’s] extraordinary life and achievements.”?Simon Singh, New York Times Book Review
At the beginning of the twentieth century, scientists argued over the size of the universe: was it, as the astronomer Harlow Shapley argued, the size of the Milky Way, or was there more truth to Edwin Hubble’s claim that our own galaxy is just one among billions?