INTERESTING
FACTS
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Before 1859 there were no working female astronomers.
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
was the Astronomer-sister of Sir William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus.
Annie Russell Maunder’s contributions
were presented as those of her husband Edward W. Maunder, discoverer of the
Maunder minimum in sunspot activity.
·
Between 1859 and 1940 one-of-three astronomers was a woman. (Yet –
no women’s names appear in textbooks of astronomy for this period.)
What happened?