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Hazen, Martha L. "The Plate Collection at the Harvard College Observatory." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 151 (1995): 396–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100035430.

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AbstractThis review presents an overview of the large and important photographic plate collection at the Harvard College Observatory, including its history, uniqueness, contents, storage, uses and successes.

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Becker, Catherine Nisbett. "Professionals on the Peak." Science in Context 22, no. 3 (2009): 487–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026988970999010x.

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ArgumentThe administration of mountain expeditions from the ground created special managerial problems. The Harvard College Observatory's Boyden Expeditions of 1887–1890 sent men and materiel to three sites: Pike's Peak, Colorado; Mount Wilson, California; and Chosica, Peru. Their goal was to test sites in order to find a suitable site for a permanent Boyden station to conduct astrophysical work in service of Harvard's preexisting projects. The logistical difficulties of living on the mountainside combined with the organizational difficulties of administrating a station at a distance. The men who lived on the mountain were professionally vulnerable, and often cut off from their home observatory both by the weather conditions at their own altitude and local politics on the ground below them. Only when an unbroken line of communication could be established between the mountain station and the Harvard Observatory could the astronomers on both ends work together to create a successful expedition.

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Bartolucci, Jorge. "Developing Science in Developing Countries: The Harvard College Observatory and the Establishment of Modern Astrophysics in Mexico." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 21, no. 1 (2005): 33–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/msem.2005.21.1.33.

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The 1942 creation of the National Astrophysical Observatory of Tonantzintla, Puebla, marked the beginning of the later establishment of modern astrophysics in Mexico. This advancement was made possible through the support given by the Harvard College Observatory to a group of young Mexican scientists who worked very hard to integrate their country into the international scientific community. Despite the efforts made by Mexican politicians and astronomers before 1940 to build scientific institutions to promote the progress of science in the country, public and private support was sporadic, fragmented, weak and directionless. What happened in the 1940s that made it possible to overcome these obstacles? According to this analysis, success can be explained as a consequence of the close interaction between Harlow Shapley and Luis E. Erro under very singular historical circumstances. Since their collaboration took place within the context of the Second World War, the influence of geopolitical affairs must be underlined. As a case study, the essay highlights the presence of social and historical factors that particularized the process of more globalized transference of modern science outside Western Europe and the United States. El establecimiento de la astronomíía moderna en Mééxico fue una historia de desventuras. A pesar de los sucesivos esfuerzos iniciados en 1842 para erigir un observatorio nacional que promoviese el progreso de la ciencia astronóómica, el respaldo púúblico y privado fue esporáádico, fragmentario, déébil y erráático. Con la fundacióón del Observatorio Astronóómico Nacional en 1878, las condiciones para hacer estudios astronóómicos mejoraron; sin embargo, las circunstancias econóómicas, polííticas e intelectuales de la éépoca no fueron las adecuadas para que los astróónomos locales se incorporaran al vigoroso proceso de crecimiento y consolidacióón de la astrofíísica moderna. Esto cambióó apenas en 1942, con la fundacióón del Observatorio Astrofíísico de Tonantzintla. En esa oportunidad se sentaron las bases para el establecimiento de la astrofíísica en Mééxico. La construccióón de este observatorio fue posible gracias a la solidaridad del director del Observatorio de la Universidad de Harvard, Harlow Shapley, y al apoyo incondicional del gobierno de Mééxico a un grupo de jóóvenes cientííficos mexicanos, encabezado por Luis Enrique Erro, que trabajaron arduamente para actualizar la astronomíía local. Dicho proceso tuvo lugar entre 1938 y 1942, en medio de una situacióón interna muy particular de la políítica mexicana y de los problemas geopolííticos planteados por la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

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GUERRINI, ANITA. "Retrospectives: Unconventional paths." British Journal for the History of Science 52, no. 4 (2019): 696–706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087419000669.

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I am the first to admit that my career has not followed a conventional path. But in talking to my colleagues, I am not sure that there is a conventional path to an academic career. This retrospective is both a look at how the profession has changed over the forty years since I began graduate school in the late 1970s, and a reflection on my own trajectory within that profession. Historiographical references reflect my own views and are not meant to be comprehensive. I first discovered the history of science as an undergraduate history major at Connecticut College in the early 1970s. The course of physics for non-majors I took with David Fenton was based on Harvard Project Physics, which had been developed in the 1960s by two professors of science education, F. James Rutherford and Fletcher G. Watson, and the historian of science Gerald Holton. We actually wrote term papers for the class; mine was on the theory that Stonehenge was an astronomical observatory.

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De Barros, Magali Conceição. "As mulheres do Harvard College Observatory: Henrietta Swan Leavitt - a mulher que descobriu como medir a distância das galáxias." História da Ciência e Ensino: construindo interfaces 18 (October 5, 2018): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/2178-2911.2018v18i1p12-21.

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ResumoNo final do século XIX e início do século XX, algumas mudanças ocorreram na área da astronomia, entre elas, o desenvolvimento técnico/tecnológico, o aparecimento de novos observatórios e juntamente com eles o aperfeiçoamento dos telescópios e a introdução da fotografia na astronomia, que possibilitou o registro das observações que antes eram feitas através de desenhos. Outra mudança que ocorreu foi a entrada de mulheres na astronomia, o registro fotográfico de observações astronômicas permitiu, que em um ambiente masculino, mulheres pudessem adentrar e fazer suas pesquisas, pois embora não lhes fosse permitido fazer observações noturnas elas poderiam utilizar as chapas fotográficas. Para exemplificar a importância do trabalho feminino nesta época, vamos mostrar a pesquisa e de Henrietta Swan Leavitt que descobriu a Relação Período-Luminosidade de Estrelas Variáveis.Palavras-chave: História da Ciência; Mulheres na Astronomia; Régua Cósmica; Henrietta Swan Leavitt; Relação Período-luminosidade.AbstractIn the late 19th and early 20th, some changes occurred in the area of astronomy, among them technical / technological development, the appearance of new observatories and together with them the improvement of telescopes and the introduction of photography in astronomy that made possible the registration from earlier observations made through drawings. Another change that occurred was the entry of women into astronomy, the photographic record of astronomical observations allowed that in a masculine environment women could enter and do their research, because although they were not allowed to make nocturnal observations they could use photographic plates. To exemplify the importance of female work at this time, let's show the research and from Henrietta Swan Leavitt who discovered the Period-Luminosity Relationship of Variable Stars.Keywords: History of Science; Women in Astronomy; Cosmic Ruler; Henrietta Swan Leavitt; Period-luminosity relationship.

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Robinson, Leif J. "Enterprise at Harvard College Observatory." Journal for the History of Astronomy 21, no. 1 (1990): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002182869002100110.

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Hazen, M. L. "The Harvard College Observatory Plate Collection." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 161 (1994): 365–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900047665.

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The Harvard College Observatory plate collection is unique in the world in several aspects. First, it is the largest, with a total of approximately half a million plates. Second, because Harvard set up stations very early in the southern hemisphere, the collection covers the entire sky. In fact, the southern hemisphere coverage is slightly better than the northern. Third, the collection is unique in the length of the time interval over which the plates were taken. The first plates were acquired in the northern hemisphere in 1885, and in the southern hemisphere in 1891. There is a substantial gap in the late 1950s and 1960s, but patrol plates were then taken up to 1989. Fourth, the collection contains a very large number of images of a given object. For B = 15 mag or brighter, from several hundred to a thousand or more images can be found; for B = 17.5 mag, one can locate from a few to several hundred images.

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Rothenberg, Marc. "Patronage of Harvard College Observatory, 1839–1851." Journal for the History of Astronomy 21, no. 1 (1990): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002182869002100105.

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Baker, James G. "Optics in the early forties at the Harvard College Observatory." Optics News 14, no. 6 (1988): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/on.14.6.000014.

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Welther, Barbara L. "Harlow Shapley: A View from the Harvard Archives." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 126 (1988): 477–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900042698.

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This exhibit featured facsimiles of some letters that Shapley exchanged with George Ellery Hale, Henry Norris Russell, and Heber Doust Curtis from 1917 when he was at Mount Wilson working on globular clusters to 1921 when he became Director of Harvard College Observatory.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Harvard College Observatory - History"

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Woodman, Jennifer Elizabeth. "Stellar Works: Searching for the Lives of Women in Science." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3030.

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While women have had a profound impact in the world of science, they struggle to gain an equal foothold in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields today. This has led to considerable public and private sector efforts to recruit women into these arenas. In order to understand how schools and nonprofits engage today's young women in STEM studies, this account includes time spent both in high school science classrooms and with ChickTech -- a Portland-based organization that works to provide a pathway into tech careers for high school-aged girls. A historical perspective reveals that modern women aren't treading into completely uncharted territory, in spite of the current disparity of representation in today's STEM arenas. This perspective is offered via an examination of the lives of a group of extraordinary women who worked in astronomy at Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s into the 1960s. While several noteworthy women are discussed, the focus here is on Cecilia Payne, the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard, and one of the 20th century's greatest astronomers. A great many people have never heard of her . . . yet.

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Burton, John Daniel. "Puritan town and gown: Harvard College and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1636--1800." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092095.

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Jannenga, Stephanie C. "Making College Colonial: The Transformation of English Culture in Higher Education in Pre-Revolutionary America." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1605727758343884.

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Books on the topic "Harvard College Observatory - History"

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Morison, Samuel Eliot. The founding of Harvard College. Harvard University Press, 1995.

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Learnard, James M. Student protests at Harvard College, 1766-1780. Phoenix Press Service, 1986.

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Berlin, Charles. Harvard Judaica: A history and description of the Judaica Collection in the Harvard College Library. Harvard College Library, 2004.

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Laurel, Ulrich, ed. Yards and gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe history. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Puello, Christopher A. Papers from a Harvard/Yale man: Examples of college work. iUniverse, 2007.

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Sports and freedom: The rise of big-time college athletics. Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Reinhardt, Nancy S. New Sweden and the Harvard College Library: Early settlers, visitors, and influential books, 1638-1988, 3-30 November 1988. The Library, 1988.

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The eight: A season in the tradition of Harvard crew. St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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Sing, Susan Saint. The eight: A season in the tradition of Harvard crew. St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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Metcalf, Keyes DeWitt. My Harvard Library years, 1937-1955: A sequel to Random recollections of an anachronism. Harvard College Library, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Harvard College Observatory - History"

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Hazen, M. L. "The Harvard College Observatory Plate Collection." In Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging. Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1146-1_76.

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Schmidt, Milton O. "Geodetic Fundamentals: Introduction." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0001.

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Robbins, Alwyn R. "Evolution of the Geodetic Concept." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0002.

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Simmons, Lansing G. "Geometric Techniques in Geodesy." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0004.

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Ewing, Maurice, J. Lamar Worzel, and Manik Talwani. "Some Aspects of Physical Geodesy." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0007.

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Whitten, Charles A. "Problems of Modern Geodesy: Introduction." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0022.

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Johns, Roman K. C. "Some Remarks on Geodetic Astronomy." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0023.

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Meade, Buford K. "Geodetic Networks." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0030.

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Braaten, Norman F. "Orthometric, Dynamic, and Barometric Heights." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0036.

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Rice, Donald A. "Gravity and Gravity Reduction." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958. American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0040.

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Conference papers on the topic "Harvard College Observatory - History"

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Simcoe, R. J., J. E. Grindlay, E. J. Los, et al. "An ultrahigh-speed digitizer for the Harvard College Observatory astronomical plates." In SPIE Optics + Photonics, edited by Andrew G. Tescher. SPIE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.681365.

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