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Radio 4,3 mins

Dava Sobel and the women who changed the universe

Woman's Hour

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Dava Sobel, bestselling author of Longitude speaks to Jane about her new book, The Glass Universe. It tells the story of the women employed as calculators or 'human computers' at the Harvard Observatory in the 19th century. Their discoveries changed our understanding of the stars and the history of astronomy.

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