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A comment on The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics.

Re:The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics by choffstein on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @02:01PM (#8460435)
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey had an episode (#5) called "Hiding in the Light"[1] that contained a fair bit about Joseph Fraunhofer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_in_the_Light

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Re:The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics by brodney on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @05:01PM (#8461706)
And episode 8, "Sisters of the Sun"[1], covered Pickering and his "colleagues", several women nicknamed computers, namely Annie Jump Cannon, and Cecilia Payne.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_the_Sun

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