Mitchell, Maria (1818-89)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3869. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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First woman astronomer in America, born in Nantucket, MA, became librarian of its Atheneum Library, helped her father in his amateur observatory. In 1847, independently discovered a comet named Miss Mitchell's Comet, and became a `computer' at the US Nautical Almanac Office, calculating the motion of Venus. After a European tour, she was presented with a telescope bought with money collected by ...

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