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ZH_3_13 — Women in Astronomy: Hypatia, Caroline Herschel, Henrietta Leavitt
Women have contributed to astronomy from antiquity to the present — often against formidable institutional barriers, many of which persisted well into the 20th century. Hypatia of Alexandria (~355–415 CE) was a renowned
ZH_3_07 — Celestial Navigation in the Pacific: Micronesian Stick Charts
The peoples of Micronesia — particularly the Marshall Islands and the Caroline Islands — developed some of the most sophisticated non-instrument navigation systems in human history. While Polynesian navigation (covered i
Q_3_12 — Telescope Technology and Observational Cosmology
The history of astronomy is inseparable from the history of telescope technology, and each major advance in instrumentation has triggered transformative discoveries. Galileo (1609) turned a simple refracting telescope to
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