Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer

by Robert Burleigh

Book Overview

Henrietta Levitt was the first person to discover the scientific importance of a star's brightness--so why has no one heard of her? Learn all about a female pioneer of astronomy in this picture book biography. Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868, and she changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old. Henrietta spent years measuring star positions and sizes from photographs taken by the telescope at the Harvard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416958193
• ISBN13: 9781416958192
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3