Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262049382ISBN-10:262049384UPC:9780262049382Book Category:Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Space Science, History, Individual ArtistsBook Topic:Cosmology, Artists' BooksSize:10.10 x 8.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCASRBQANP
Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light years--a figure we can calculate because of the work of Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921), who spent decades studying glass plate photographs of the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262049382ISBN-10:262049384UPC:9780262049382Book Category:Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Space Science, History, Individual ArtistsBook Topic:Cosmology, Artists' BooksSize:10.10 x 8.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:2.2024Product ID:SCASRBQANP
Anna Von Mertens is the recipient of a 2010 United States Artists Fellowship in Visual Arts and a 2021-2022 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Her exhibition Measure, presented at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, traveled to the University Galleries of Illinois State University and Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.
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