INTERESTING FACTS

· 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?