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Preface; Key to abbreviations in notes;
1. Through rugged ways;
2. Ardent and faithful work with a telescope;
3. Mars; his moons and his heavens;
4. A seeker of comets;
5. Vanderbilt astronomer;
6. In the realm of the nebulae;
7. Go west, young man!;
8. Hanging fire;
9. On Mt. Hamilton;
10. A year of wonders;
11. The young rebel;
12. 'I am tired here';
13. Immortality;
14. Travels and travails;
15. Barnard and Mars;
16. Nature's true artisan;
17. A tide in his affairs;
18. Yerkes observatory;
19. Disappointments and triumphs;
20. The comet and Milky Way photographs;
21. Comet tales;
22. Observer of all that shines - or obscures;
23. Eclipse and decline;
24. Ad astra; Index.
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Cathy Wiggins
reviewed The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard on July 29, 2015
The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard
Disappointing is probably the best word to choose for how I felt when reading this book. I am all for women in science, and even more for overlooked women to be recognized and learned about it; I was finding material for my daughters to learn about women like Henrietta Leavitt before this became so popular. But the writing wasn't anything spectacular--for a while I thought this might be three stars, but I just didn't like this much, so that would be dishonest.
That said, as Johnson admits, there is virtually nothing known about Leavitt--who she really was, what she thought, etc. There is no trove of letters, no diary or journal she left behind, very few photos. This book did have something do do with Leavitt and her discovery along with her other work, but much of it really isn't about her. Rather it is primarily about the changes and developments in astronomy in the first few decades of the twentieth century. At times felt like I read more about some of the men involved and all of their arguments than about Leavitt. True, the topic is interesting, but it's not what I was hoping for with this book.
I would have rather had an interestingly written book discussing women in astronomy where Leavitt and her important contributions comprised a solid chapter or two than to have her story stretched out well beyond what is known about her.
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