Miss Leavitt's Stars The Untold Story of the Woman who Discovered how to Measure the Universe

Recounts the story of Radcliffe-educated Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who in the face of ill health and progressing hearing loss discovered a new law that enabled astronomers to use variable stars in order to measure the universe, a finding that solved a key scientific mystery and enabled important breakthroughs. 30,000 first printing.