The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science)

Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition

Claire Brock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2017
Icon Books (Verlag)
978-1-78578-166-7 (ISBN)

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The story of Britain's first female professional scientist, Caroline Herschel

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 and her fiery letters - Claire Brock tells the story of a woman determined to win independence and satisfy her astronomical ambition.

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).

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Icon Science
Verlagsort	Duxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 197 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78578-166-9 / 1785781669
ISBN-13	978-1-78578-166-7 / 9781785781667
Zustand	Neuware