Whatever Shines Should Be Observed: [Quicquid Nitet Notandum]

by Susan M.P. McKenna-Lawlor

It is good to mark the new Millennium by looking back as well as forward. Whatever Shines Should Be Observed looks to the nineteenth century to celebrate the achievements of five distinguished women, four of whom were born in Ireland while the fifth married into an Irish family, who made pioneering contributions to photography, microscopy, astronomy and astrophysics.
The women featured came from either aristocratic or professional families. Thus,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402014244
• ISBN13: 9781402014246
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 10.0"