Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science an astronomer among the American romantics /

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Main Author: Bergland, Renée L., 1963-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Urania's island
  • Nantucket Athena
  • The sexes of science
  • Miss Mitchell's comet
  • "A center of rude eyes and tongues"
  • The shoulders of giants
  • The yankee Corinnes
  • A mentor in Florence
  • The war years
  • Vassar Female College
  • No miserable bluestocking
  • "Good woman that she is"
  • The undevout astronomer
  • Retrograde motion
  • Urania's inversion.