HISTORY 135C

Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker

Week 7.  The New Astronomy.

Supplementary readings for Week 7's lectures include:

  • excerpts from "Spectroscopy and the Rise of Astrophysics" by Barbara J. Becker.  In La Storia della Scienza, Vol. VII:  L'Ottocento (2003), S. Petruccioli, ed., pp. 265-281.  Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
  • "Dispelling the Myth of the Able Assistant:  Margaret and William Huggins at Work in the Tulse Hill Observatory" (1992), by Barbara J. Becker [a version of this paper appeared in Creative Couples in Science (1996), Helena Pycior, Nancy Slack, and Pnina Abir-Am, eds.]

 
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