August 27, 2016 Saturday
Met PSI Rahul Kadam in the evening at the police station
Bedtime Story
A little baby girl was born in 1868 July 4 (The day the 13 American colonies broke away from the British Empire) in Lancaster (not British), Massachusetts, USA.
Her father, a church minister named her Henrietta Swan Leavitt ( Swan comes from her mother Henrietta Swan).
She graduated from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Please note so many names of cities of modern America are straight away British, a reminder of the Colonial era.
Yet the Americans unlike us Indians do not go about renaming or Americanizing their city names;
It is a reflection of their self-confidence.)
In the final and the fourth year of her college Leavitt took a course in astronomy.
(just imagine it was the times of the mothers or the grandmothers of our grandmothers';
And you know how our grandmothers were like.)
After she graduated in 1892, she was 24.
What do u think she did?
She travelled all over America and Europe and somewhere in this period she lost her hearing.
(I encourage every human on earth to leave their culture and way of life and travel at a very young age as an alien to other ethnological groups.)
You can see that this not your average sort of a lady of 1890s.
Then soon after returning from her travels, at the age of 25 she joined the Harvard College Observatory (HSO) that was founded in 1839.
It is incredible how this going nation had started investing money and resources into astronomy which was not even considered a proper science those days.
Leavitt became one of the women human "computers" that Edward Pickering was hiring then to measure and catalog the brightness of the stars that Pickett was recording on the photographic plates under the telescopes.
Women, even in the enlightened America, were deemed incapable of handling telescopes.
And to crown it all, Pickering was nor even paying her.
Leavitt was working for free.
Only later did she start receiving 0.30 USD an hour (without any fixed salary or benefits or Insurance).
We will gaze this young lady's work in nights to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Met PSI Rahul Kadam in the evening at the police station
Bedtime Story
A little baby girl was born in 1868 July 4 (The day the 13 American colonies broke away from the British Empire) in Lancaster (not British), Massachusetts, USA.
Her father, a church minister named her Henrietta Swan Leavitt ( Swan comes from her mother Henrietta Swan).
She graduated from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Please note so many names of cities of modern America are straight away British, a reminder of the Colonial era.
Yet the Americans unlike us Indians do not go about renaming or Americanizing their city names;
It is a reflection of their self-confidence.)
In the final and the fourth year of her college Leavitt took a course in astronomy.
(just imagine it was the times of the mothers or the grandmothers of our grandmothers';
And you know how our grandmothers were like.)
After she graduated in 1892, she was 24.
What do u think she did?
She travelled all over America and Europe and somewhere in this period she lost her hearing.
(I encourage every human on earth to leave their culture and way of life and travel at a very young age as an alien to other ethnological groups.)
You can see that this not your average sort of a lady of 1890s.
Then soon after returning from her travels, at the age of 25 she joined the Harvard College Observatory (HSO) that was founded in 1839.
It is incredible how this going nation had started investing money and resources into astronomy which was not even considered a proper science those days.
Leavitt became one of the women human "computers" that Edward Pickering was hiring then to measure and catalog the brightness of the stars that Pickett was recording on the photographic plates under the telescopes.
Women, even in the enlightened America, were deemed incapable of handling telescopes.
And to crown it all, Pickering was nor even paying her.
Leavitt was working for free.
Only later did she start receiving 0.30 USD an hour (without any fixed salary or benefits or Insurance).
We will gaze this young lady's work in nights to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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