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Learned modesty and the first lady's comet: a commentary on Caroline Herschel (1787) ‘An account of a new comet’

Long before women were allowed to become Fellows of the Royal Society, or obtain university degrees, one woman managed to get her voice heard, her discovery verified and her achievement celebrated. That woman was Caroline Herschel, who, as this paper will discuss, managed to find ways to fit comet d...

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Autor principal: Winterburn, Emily
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0210