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Miss Leavitt's Stars

The Untold Story of the Forgotten Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

Miss Leavitt's Stars( )
Author: Johnson, George
Series title:Great Discoveries Ser.
ISBN:978-0-393-05128-5
Publication Date:Jun 2005
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $32.95
Book Description:

A forgotten heroine of science and how she solved one of the crucial mysteries of the universe.

Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Science / Space Science / Astronomy
Science / Space Science / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.224 x 21.082 x 2.032 cm
Book Weight:0.293 Kilograms
Author Biography
Johnson, George (Author)
George Johnson was born in 1952, in Fayetteville, Ark. He has worked for newspapers in Albuquerque, N.Mex. and Minneapolis, Minn., and is a science writer for the New York Times.

His first book, Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics (1984), won a special achievement award in nonfiction from the Los Angeles chapter of International PEN.

Many of Johnson's other books evidence thoughtful, spiritual examinations of the relation between man and science. Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith and the Search for Order (1995) is about the diversity of ideas in New Mexico. Johnson draws parallels between Los Alamos and the worshipful view of scientific discovery and the high desert, a sacred place for the Tewa Indians and Hermanos Penitentes.

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