Includes bibliographical references (page 102) and index.
Watching the sun disappear -- A child of Nantucket: 1818-1835 -- Teaching and learning: 1835-1847 -- Earning a medal: 1847-1855 -- Expanding the horizon: 1855-1861 -- Mitchell as professor: 1862-1869 -- Carrying the torch for women: 1869-1876 -- The force of personal character.
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Profiles a Vassar professor who was one of the most famous astronomers in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and whose central message to her students was "never cease to wonder."
Mitchell, Maria,1818-1889
Mitchell, Maria,1818-1889.
Mitchell, Maria,1818-1889
Astronomers-- United States, Biography, Juvenile literature.