TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,George
TI  - Miss Leavitt's stars: the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe 
SN  - 0393051285 :
AV  - QB807 .J64 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Leavitt, Henrietta Swan,
KW  - Astrometry
KW  - History
KW  - Astronomical photometry
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150) and index; Prologue : the village in the canyon -- Black stars, white nights -- Hunting for variables -- Henrietta's law -- Triangles -- Shapley's ants -- The late, great Milky Way -- In the realm of the nebulae -- The mysterious K -- The cosmic stampede -- Ghost stories -- Epilogue : fire on the mountain
ER  -