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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Katy Sternberger
The Woman Who Measured
the Universe
1868-1921
Behold the distant stars, how high they are. - (Job 22:12)
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
“A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points
corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing
that there is a simple relation between the
brightness of the variables and their periods.”- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
announcing her new law
Triangulation
Leavitt
Crater
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory
of the moon, and another glory of the
stars; for star differs from star in
glory. - (I Corinthians 15:41)
Johnson, George. Miss Leavitt’s Stars. NewYork: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.
Sternberger, Katy. “Henrietta Swan Leavitt.” <StarWrite.org>
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