Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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-- Story of Maria Mitchell[2022]., Primary, Kids Can Press Call No: PICTURE NF ALA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a pioneering 19th-century scientist and women's rights activist who became the first professional female astronomer in the U.S., first female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and one of the first female college professors.
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2000., Primary, Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 921 BANNEKER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Colonial leadersSummary Note: A biography of the eighteenth-century African American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.
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c1978., Abingdon Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the distinguished eighteenth-century black astronomer, farmer, mathematician, and surveyor whose accomplishments include having published a popular almanac and constructed the first completely American-made clock.
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c2000., Child's World Call No: B BAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Journey to freedomSummary Note: Describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker in the fields of science and architecture, as well as his impact as one of the pioneers in promoting equality.
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2014., Adolescent, Rosen Pub. Call No: EARTH SCIENCE NF BOR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Revolutionary discoveries of scientific pioneers.Summary Note: Discusses the life and scientific achievements of Edwin Hubble.
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2004., Juvenile, Greenwood Publishing Group Call No: 921 SAGAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Greenwood biographies,Summary Note: Presents a biography on twentieth-century American scientist and astronomer Carl Sagan and explores his work on planetary explorations and other scientific breakthroughs credited to him.
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2015., Adolescent, Rosen Pub. Call No: B SAGAN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great science writers.Summary Note: Profiles the life and career of astronomer and science writer Carl Sagan.
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c1997, Pre-adolescent, Franklin Watts Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Book report biographySummary Note: Traces the life and work of the man whose study of galaxies led to a new understanding of the universe.
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2005., Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. Call No: 921 HUBBLE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of revolutionary scientific discoveries and theoriesSummary Note: The biography of the scientist that was responsible for discovering the size of the universe and idea that it is explanding.
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c2013, Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Henrietta Swan Leavitt changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old. Henrietta spent years measuring photographs of stars. Her discovery that certain stars had a fixed pattern to their changes in brightness made it possible for astronomers to measure greater stellar distances, leading to our present understanding of the size of the universe.
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c2013., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Henrietta Swan Leavitt changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old. Henrietta spent years measuring photographs of stars. Her discovery that certain stars had a fixed pattern to their changes in brightness made it possible for astronomers to measure greater stellar distances, leading to our present understanding of the size of the universe.
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c2003., Chelsea House Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women in science (Chelsea House Publishers)Summary Note: 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."
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c1988., Carolrhoda Books Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Carolrhoda creative minds bookSummary Note: A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.
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[2019]., Primary, Beach Lane Books Call No: PICTURE NF BAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Every evening, from the time she was a child, Maria Mitchell stood on her rooftop with her telescope and swept the sky. And then one night she saw something unusual--a comet no one had ever seen before! Miss Mitchell's extraordinary discovery made her famous the world over and paved the way for her to become America's first professional female astronomer"--Provided by publisher.
