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</html>";s:4:"text";s:28509:". In exchange for agreeing to speak at the "One Year and Counting" event, I got to sit in on some of the science meetings and tour certain non-restricted areas of the Lab -- most notably the Mission Operations Center that controls New Horizons. But I cannot put up with bad translations that ruin good books. Mrs. Fleming leaned in with her loupe for a privileged view of the stellar universe. “Look,” she telephoned her father to say “I got the story on the first woman to enlist. Another of my daily rituals is listening to Garrison Keillor intone history notes and a poem in his pleasing baritone on "The Writer's Almanac." Later, after I sent Mother Mary Francis my credit card information so she could place the monthly orders directly, she assured me by return letter that she had "resisted the temptation to buy a villa in France." As the project developed into a mash-up of popular culture and current astronomy, I came up with “How the Planets Came to Earth.” The publisher strongly preferred “The Planets.” Rather than try to defend my title, I struck a bargain: I said I would go along with the predictable, pedestrian “The Planets” in exchange for a radical subtitle, namely no subtitle. He spoke out against draining in his editorials. This has been a year for recalling the forgotten roles women played in astronomy and spaceflight. As such, they are increasingly attractive to thieves and forgers. Mingbo’s work ethic guaranteed the level of effort he would devote to the task. No other translator, from any country, had ever tried to engage me this way. By the end of its first year (of many, I hope), Meter will have showcased the works of a Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, and the current national Poet Laureate of the UK. Given that Copernicus served as a Catholic Church administrator and dedicated his magnum opus to Pope Paul III, I thought the use of the word heaven particularly appropriate. One party was much stronger than the other. Sobel writes: Though Mrs. Fleming fully affirmed the principle of equality, she was not an American citizen, and the feminist struggle for the right to vote was not her fight. Her husband, Hou Yi, is said to be a super-hero, who shot down. Yet I had made the mistake, and not one of the technical experts or copy editors among  my colleagues had caught it. He answered some of my questions, but he didn't have your email either, so he referred me to Prof. Owen Gingerich. As many women as men have contributed, including some at the very start of their careers. Mingbo was right. Born in Minneapolis in 1890, she was raised in New England and educated at Wellesley College. Aside from his name and the dates defining his life, Pickering's epitaph consisted of a single word, Thanatopsis. As my dear friend Will Andrewes pointed out at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the show boasts marvels, including the "Mona Lisa of horology," otherwise known as John Harrison's fourth timekeeper, or H-4. All this fun is so much more than I envisioned when the idea for the play first occurred to me, forty-plus years ago. When Pickering issued a plea for funding, another woman stepped up as the benefactress who would make it possible — Catherine Wolfe Bruce, an elderly painter and patron of the arts who admired science with an outsider’s curiosity. Last August (2019), I learned that Scientific American – a magazine I’ve been reading since I was in high school – had carried poetry in its early issues, beginning in 1845. It chronicles the amazing stories of women working at the Observatory as early as the late 19th century. Like? Mingbo wrote back to elaborate on her place in ancient Chinese mythology. The elixir had enough dosage to allow two persons to survive a very long time, or for one person to become immortal. But now he became a fact-checker in addition to his role as translator. In a composition notebook with alphabet tabs, I entered words that might call attention to themselves, along with the numbers of the chapters in which they appeared. In the brief time I had to chat with him, I thought we might commiserate about the declining memory capacity of the human brain, but Immink was having none of that. It has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. Mingbo often apologized for asking so many questions, but of course I was thrilled to have them—and to have my own private tutor in Chinese lore. because now they would be mortal like ordinary people. Although a simple "Find" command can turn up all the inadvertent repetitions in an article or a chapter, "Find" falls short in the face of a lengthy book project with several parts. On the whole, your book involves so many fields of knowledge that I have to look up and learn a lot of new material from time to time before proceeding, but as it is said, no pain and no gain. Given that Copernicus served as a Catholic Church administrator and dedicated his magnum opus to Pope Paul III, I thought the use of the word heaven particularly appropriate. BTW, I got to know my editor via the Internet as well, when we met in a nice website of used-book transaction. She was at work on a novel about 17th century naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, and took the opportunity to write a poem about her. What’s more, I had intended the book expressly for people who knew little or nothing about astronomy. She divined the true character of these wetlands as a river, not a swamp, and gave the place its enduring epithet in the title of her 1947 book, The Everglades: River of Grass. (Lest we forget, the first comprehensive star catalog had been completed two centuries earlier by another woman, effectively the first female astronomer of the Western world.). But shortly before the book’s release, his publisher summoned him to a meeting where “people were sitting around the room with their chins on the floor,” stunned by news of a new book by Leon Uris, the celebrated author of Exodus, called Mila 18. We were able to see the Pleiades, the Hyades, and the Andromeda galaxy with binoculars and pointed out to each other Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Taurus, Auriga, and the great Square of Pegasus. beings should cherish Earth and live in peace with each other. During the years I worked on my book about the planets of the solar system, I needed some way to refer to the work-in-progress, and landed by default on “The Planets” as a working title. His mathematical work in restricting the planets to perfectly circular motion defined his vision of “a more perfect heaven.” I liked the sound of that. Long before Nikola Tesla proclaimed that technology would unleash women’s true potential, Pickering saw an opportunity to involve smart, skilled women in making use of new astrophotography technology and championed that vision fiercely. . Toys also help control anxiety in mission control. It evoked strangers on a train, and hinted at their potential destiny with each other, while they, "islanded in unawareness," hurtled to their destinations. Accepting the honor meant flying to Munich to attend the October 18 prize ceremony in the Hall of Fame at the Deutsches Museum, a grand old wonder cabinet of science and technology exhibits. Delicious moon cakes and wine will be consumed at the night to celebrate the festival. Pickering determined that the ideal telescope would be a lavish 24 inches in diameter. When New Horizons wakes up for a trajectory correction or instrument test, the bear is propped into a sitting position and dons his party hat. It was the kind of coincidence that opens a rational person such as myself to mystic possibilities. heaven. I had exchanged brief comments with the Polish and Hebrew translators, but nothing to compare with Mingbo’s hunger for the nuances of meaning. (This essay originally appeared on Powells.com.). In fact, I found out the preceding Friday, by e-mail from a well meaning colleague who urged me, "You definitely must do this Sunday's NYT acrostic puzzle." Mingbo thrived in this danger zone. A few days after returning from Munich, at another prize ceremony in the Boston Museum of Science, I watched Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (and winner of the 1998 Eduard Rhein Technology Award), receive a 2014 Bradford Washburn Award. A memoir is a work of nonfiction that focuses on a specific period in the author's life. As the sender was someone I knew only passing well, and to whom I had never disclosed my puzzle mania, the message spilled the surprise. Once. One of the first things I asked when I met her in 1991 was how she had managed to hold fast to her goals when it seemed she might never prevail. In addition to the interaction with truly motivated students, I enjoy my friendships with a few faculty members and the physical beauty of the campus, including Paradise Pond. As an artist, Bruce must have been particularly put off by such poverty of imagination — the artist necessarily comes at life from the very opposite perspective, which Georgia O’Keeffe memorably articulated: “Making your unknown known is the important thing — and keeping the unknown always beyond you…” Maria Mitchell expressed the same sentiment from the standpoint of science: “The world of learning is so broad… We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” Bruce surely saw the common ground between art and science in this unflinching insistence that there are always more unknowns to be made known, so she promptly gave Pickering all of the $50,000 needed for the new telescope. New acquaintances, even strangers recognizing her in the restaurant where I took her to dinner, were immediately on a first-name basis with her. This happened to Joseph Heller in the case of, In my own titling experience, I tried hard to avoid using “longitude” in the title of. The play I wrote about Copernicus’s campaign for the heliocentric worldview took its title from the Bible, And the Sun Stood Still. My own experience of translating the letters of Galileo’s daughter had helped me appreciate the difficulty of selecting a single right word from among any number of synonym candidates. Galileo finds himself back in the news (summer 2019), Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The more I ponder over the space, the more I think we human. Today's poem happened to be by Philip Larkin. Fleming became the first American-based woman to earn the distinction. When I become serious in translating your books, some people think I am foolishly making troubles for myself, since my major is not in English, literature, science history, or astronomy, and it is such a badly paid task. Nothing anywhere else is like them: their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space....The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of sawgrass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. She remained a champion of all the flora and fauna there, though she had never spent much time on site. Clearly, no one had ever read my book as carefully as Mingbo was reading it. Currey's book describes the work habits of 161 individuals, only some of whom are poets, and Keillor draws on centuries' worth of verse. On occasion, I have taken the part of Rheticus (Copernicus’s provocative young visitor) in informal enactments of two scenes from the play’s first act, with my friend and mentor Owen Gingerich of Harvard as Copernicus. In Galileo's world, words like "abstruse," "bellowed," and "capacious" found their places. The line they make is an edge of velvet against the infinite blue, the blue-and-white, the clear fine primrose yellow, the burning brass and crimson, the molten silver, the deepening hyacinth sky.”. She set some of her stories in and around the Everglades, and never lost interest in them over the fifteen years she worked as a full-time freelance writer. A few weeks ago the university's oral historians asked me to recall my experience on the program. Pickering was a visionary man in many regards. “Do you think I could get away with calling it a river of grass?” Marjory asked the state hydrologist, the first expert she consulted in her research. He was also a prolific popular writer and children's author. She answered with a question of her own: “Why should I give up?”. When the foggy day came, he led boats out and pretended for sneak attacks. At the start of our working relationship, I thought Mingbo was a woman, and he assumed I was a man. The publication of a new work by Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall, called Knocking on Heaven’s Door, made the way safe for A More Perfect Heaven. The cause she championed was equality for women in astronomy. Warm and dry indoors in her long woolen dress, she threaded her way among the stars. According to Chinese tradition, tomorrow will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the moon is brightest and fullest at night. While it would be unseemly, Pickering conceded, to subject a lady to the fatigue, not to mention the cold in winter, of telescope observing, women with a knack for figures could be accommodated in the computing room, where they did credit to the profession. In 1916, during the first World War, she was assigned a story on the first female enlistee from Florida in the Naval Reserve. Pickering ran the observatory for more than forty years, from 1877 until his death in 1919. H-4 was made for travel. Many of them have the time and inclination for such work, and especially among the graduates of women’s colleges are many who have had abundant training to make excellent observers. As the daughter and sister of puzzlers, I was raised on The New York Times crosswords and acrostics -- also diagramless, cryptic, puns & anagrams, and other varieties of word play. The real challenge is to absorb the spirit and tone of the original, and transfer that into the target language, despite all the untranslatable intangibles that separate the cultures speaking the different languages. The back-to-school season finds me once again at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The Foundation's prizes reflect his various interests, and include youth awards to promising students in the sciences. Viking published The Glass Universe in December 2016. As the work may be done at home, even from an open window, provided the room has the temperature of the outer air, there seems to be no reason why they would not thus make an advantageous use of their skill.”, Pickering felt, furthermore, that participating in astronomical research would improve women’s social standing and justify the current proliferation of women’s colleges: “The criticism is often made by the opponents of the higher education of women that, while they are capable of following others as far as men can, they originate almost nothing, so that human knowledge is not advanced by their work. New Horizons has a small Earthbound mascot affectionately known as the hibernation bear. The author never sees the translation until it appears in print (and sometimes not even then). With Anna Draper’s funding, the women of the Harvard Observatory amassed an enormous library of half a million glass plates — Sobel’s “glass universe” — cataloging more stars than anyone had previously thought possible. For nearly an hour, I sat in a tiny room, wearing headphones and speaking into an ultra-sensitive microphone. Although Galileo has been dead more than 350 years, his lilting name remains synonymous with the imagined rift between science and faith. But, back at the Harvard Observatory, further studies required better technology. ", A-Word-A-Day also cited some of Mme. The new monthly poetry column got a name, “Meter,” which seemed an ideal mix of poetry and science. Grade-school teachers report that the majority of students need to engage in hands-on activities involving globes and flashlights before they can master the Moon's phases. For the August 2020 issue, the editors have taken Meter out from behind the magazine’s paywall, so Jessica Reed’s poem about gravitational waves can be readily enjoyed beyond the world of Scientific American subscribers. The origin of the force that is pushing the universe apart is a mystery, and astronomers refer to it simply as "dark energy". What I found truly unusual about him was his habit of careful reading and thorough preparation. Universe is also referred to as the ..... 2. And when Mr. Lamb inquired about Longitude's unexpected success, I mentioned I had been at a dance competition in Florida the day The New York Times ran its rave review, but that my editor, George Gibson, had gone out late at night in Manhattan to buy the next morning's newspaper, then telephoned me in Florida to read the review over the phone--twice. I had been in fear since I sent those two emails, lest my carelessness and ruthlessness offended you. Last Saturday I visited the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Usually, I don't read a book as carefully. During that time, Mingbo earned his doctoral degree from Neil Armstrong’s alma mater, Purdue University, in Indiana, where his daughter was born in 2001. I’ve found that the best book club discussion questions are ones that are open-ended and that get people to share their personal opinions. instead, where she has lived lonely ever since. An old Chinese translator once defined three stages that a translated work should achieve. I placed a small stone on top of the marker, and moved on. What a month for glitter. Beginning in the late-1800s, women were employed by … The Hubble Space Telescope is able to see further, and therefore further back in time, than any other telescope. About The Glass Universe. Besides, I would not have attempted the acrostic before Monday night, by which time one of my students had already congratulated me on its content. Just as Mitchell’s long life was coming to an end, a new wellspring of opportunity for women astronomers was coming to life at one of the world’s most venerated academic institutions. On July 16, the en-route-to-Pluto team celebrated an important milestone: Their New Horizons spacecraft had arrived at a point in space just one year shy of Pluto flyby. The publication of a new work by Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall, called. ISBN 978-0-670-01695-2 US$30.00. The BBC series “Science and Religion: The Phony War,” produced by Dan Tierney and presented by Nick Spencer, will air sometime this summer (2019). "I wish you could have seen us last night," Mother Mary Angela said in her Christmas greeting, "as we went outside during recreation to view the stars with the planisphere that came with the course on the night sky. The book was “Galileo’s Daughter” from the proposal through the first draft and the greatly revised second draft. The book was “Galileo’s Daughter” from the proposal through the first draft and the greatly revised second draft. Editors countered, “You can’t say ‘heaven’ in the title of a book about astronomy.” I didn’t need to argue the point. Shortly after the first class of female astronomers had graduated from Maria Mitchell’s Vassar program, Pickering printed and distributed a plea for volunteers that read like the polar opposite of Shackleton’s recruitment ad. — Then I wrote to my American editor, and informed her of the correction that would have to be made in subsequent editions. As the text went to copy-editing and design, however, concern arose that the title smacked of “chick book.” Fortunately for me, no one in the publishing house or literary agency could come up with an acceptable alternative, and the original stuck. I was flattered, too, to think of the time and care invested in this new translation. Although I have no need to look back at the concordances of previous books, reviewing them recalls the feeling of immersion in those subjects. Recently Mr. Lamb donated his collection of the 801 annotated "Booknotes" books to the library at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Named one of the best books of the month by Flavorwire, Bustle, Harper’s Bazaar, Real Simple, Refinery29, Men’s Journal, BBC, and The National Book Review “Ms. By 1890, Fleming had singlehandedly classified the spectra of ten thousand stars and published the findings in the tome The Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, all four hundred pages of which she herself had meticulously proofread. [Miss Bruce] volunteered to lend further assistance, not just to Harvard, but to astronomers everywhere, if Pickering would agree to help her choose the most deserving cases. Curie's writings is the one that astronomer Annie Jump Cannon recorded in a notebook in 1922, while on an observing run in Arequipa, Peru. Privacy policy. The new book belongs to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While it's true I was raised Jewish in the Bronx, my ongoing association with the sisters has proved a continuing source of joy. To make our correspondence less serious, I attach a picture of my adorable and creative daughter. The incoming first-year students have been asked to read The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, a book I assigned as required reading for my science-writing class last semester. She had often heard the director say, “A magnifying glass will show more in the photograph than a powerful telescope will show in the sky.”. There she will discuss her latest book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. I made that same labeling mistake once myself, and was embarrassed by it, so I remain sensitized to the important difference between the far side of the Moon, forever hidden from the earthbound among us, and the dark side, which changes all the time as the Moon circles the Earth. What more can you ask to be?” trailblazer Maria Mitchell admonished the first class of female astronomers at Vassar in 1876. Those choices, which reflected my interests more than theirs, bound me ever closer to the group. An interesting look at the female computers at Harvard Observatory from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. If this labor has enlarged and enriched your own life this year, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Part One of my new book, The Glass Universe, concerns “The Colors of Starlight.” It opens with a quote about stellar colors from the first lady of American astronomy, Maria Mitchell: The glass-plate photographs that the Harvard women examined in their studies were particularly sensitive to light from the blue-violet end of the visual spectrum – a fact that has sensitized me to violet light wherever it appears. I determined to do better by the next book, concerning Copernicus. Helming the team was Williamina Fleming — a Scotswoman whom Edward Charles Pickering, the thirty-something director of the observatory, first hired as a second maid at his residency in 1879 before recognizing her mathematical talents and assigning her the role of part-time computer. “It’s too buggy,” she said, “too wet, too generally inhospitable—the sawgrass would cut you to pieces—for camping or hiking or the other outdoor activities which naturalists in other places can routinely enjoy.” Still, on her infrequent visits over the years she had witnessed the nuptial flight of the white ibis, fed marshmallows to alligators, and walked close enough to a rare Florida panther to see the shadows of its whiskers. Until now, I have never assumed the word universe in a book title. It is moved only in sluggish rollings by the vast push of the winds across it. Our conversation about it aired on "Booknotes" on January 17, 1999. The Suns were depicted as the sons of the heaven emperor (some kinds of thunderbirds). The Glass Castle Questions and Answers - Discover the eNotes.com community of teachers, mentors and students just like you that can answer any question you might have on The Glass … (Nearly eight decades earlier, pioneering astronomer Caroline Herschel has become the first woman awarded their prestigious Gold Medal.) He seemed so interested that I couldn't resist asking him a question: "Are you a dancer, Brian?" Your support makes all the difference. Availing herself of a sale on The Great Courses, she had purchased "Experiencing Hubble," "Our Night Sky," and "Building Great Sentences." To order a copy for £12.99 go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call … For her part, Williamina Fleming had a much more specific lens on equality. Today, November 7, is the birthday of the one woman scientist whose name is familiar to nearly everyone. I thought it must be an error or incidence of fraudulent use, so I called the vendor to question the transaction. A path that runs from campus around the pond and along a good stretch of the river provides the ideal hour-long daily walk. The phrase “glass universe” may evoke the ancient notion of crystalline celestial spheres, but I use it to describe Harvard’s incomparable collection of half a million glass photographic plates, taken with cameras attached to telescopes, in a century-long effort to catalogue the entire content of the cosmos. The following week, the answers to the previous week's puzzles appeared, and sent another small electric charge through the members of my family. Even though New Horizons is performing perfectly, and every phase of the mission has gone according to plan thus far, the spacecraft's handlers live with a constant concern for its welfare. (A generation earlier, Maria Mitchell had made a parallel case for why women make better astronomers than men.). She built and drove mobile X-ray units to numerous front-line battlefields during World War I to aid wounded French soldiers. For fourteen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. “They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the Earth, remote, never wholly known. Sobel writes with an eye for a telling detail and an ear for an elegant turn of phrase. He and his wife had lived (and fished and traveled) in America for six years. The Mission Operations Center looks like Apollo Mission Control, only much smaller and less densely populated with anxious faces. Marie Skladowska Curie (1867-1934) is well worth celebrating for her achievements in both physics and chemistry, for which she was twice awarded the Nobel Prize, and also for her personal bravery. When Mingbo first approached me, in July 2006, Longitude had already been translated into some two dozen languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. The wooden stand held the plate in a picture frame, tilted at forty-five-degree angle. Indeed, according to the ad copy, earlier iterations of this very model, an Omega Speedmaster chronometer, were worn by members of the Apollo missions. Mingbo raised many more questions on The Planets than he had on Longitude, and yet I could see that this was the result of his doing more work, not less. This happened to Joseph Heller in the case of Catch-22. Judge Stoneman was already stumping for the preservation of the Everglades before his daughter arrived. When I translate your books, it occurs to me that if I had read them when I was a teenager, I would have chosen a different major. I not only appropriated it for the title, but also inserted it in the dialogue, so that three of the play’s five characters each allude at least once to Joshua’s command. 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