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Looking at the stars
IN THE late 19th century /an extraordinary group of women /worked at the Harvard College Observatory . Known as “computers”, they chart ed the position, and brightness of stars on a daily basis /by applying mathematical formulae / to the observations of their male colleagues who watched the sky.
When the observatory’s research was redirect ed towards photographing the heavens rather than observing them merely by eye, the duties of the “computers”/ expand ed /apace.
