3 great reasons the world needs to know about Henrietta Leavitt
Friday, August 4th, 2017A celestial romance and true story of discovery, Silent Sky explores the life and career of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) as she fearlessly asserts herself in the male-dominated world of early astronomy. Hired by the Harvard Observatory as a human “computer†to catalog the stars, Henrietta’s story plays out against a landscape of early feminism […]