The Calculators of Stars
Synopsis:
The year is 1865, and for several years the United States has been torn apart by a cruel civil war. Gabriella Howard is a girl without many options. She has lost her mother and lives with her father in Poughkeepsie, a small town in New York State on the shores of the Hudson. But soon the war will take her father away too and she’ll have to move to an orphanage.
Her luck changes on the day that Maria Mitchel, an old friend of her father’s, appears in the orphanage determined to take charge of her and enlist her help in her new job as a professor. Mrs Michel is a young but renowned astronomer who is to start giving classes in the subject at Vassar College, a monumental university; the first in the United States to offer higher education to women, being built on the outskirts of Poughkeepsie.
Highlights
Highlights The Calculators of Stars
Las calculadoras de estrellas is a story of survival and a paean to the women who managed to make their way in spite of all the obstacles in their path, in many cases receiving no recognition whatsoever for their work.
Technical Data
| Technical data | Publishing date: 25/10/2016 ISBN: 978-84-233-5144-2 Pages: 416 Imprint: Ediciones Destino |
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| Reviews | Maria Mitchel, like Caroline Herschel, was one of the first female astronomers in history at a time when women scientists were unheard of. Set in a time of great social upheaval, from the end of slavery to the rise of the first university for woman, exploring their role in science and women’s suffrage. In the middle of the 19th century, the unique strength and tenacity of the astronomer Maria Mitchel changed the course of science and women’s role in it forever. An amazing story that reveals the surprising and unknown role of hundreds of anonymous women in the greatest astronomical discoveries of our time. |
