Maria Mitchell

MARIA MITCHELL In my women's history monthly report, Maria Mitchell, a self-taught astronomer, is. She discovered Mitchell's comet and got a wonderful achievement in her life. Maria Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, was born by William and Lydia Mitchell. When Maria Mitchell grew up in the Quaker community, few girls were allowed to study astronomy and advanced mathematics. Mitchell was not Maria's father, but a faithful amateur astronomer who was then an amateur led her to math and night sky.

Maria Mitchell's letters and other papers were organized by Nantucket Maria Mitchell Laboratories and Pursuit College Special Collections in Poughkeepsie, New York. Some letters and diaries are printed in Phebe Mitchell Kendall's book "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals" (1896) and Henry Albers "Maria Mitchell" A Life in Journal and Letters "(2001) I will. Biography includes Helen Wright, "Sweepers above the Sky" (1950), Beatrice Gormley, Maria Mitchell, "Astronomer's Soul" (1995). Sally Gregory Kohlstedt posted an article in American National Biography (1999). Major new biographies of Mitchell of Margaret Moore Booker sponsored by Maria Mitchell Society will be released in the near future.

Maria Mitchell started to appreciate her "wide sky" and "blue sky" from a very young age in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Maria Mitchell enjoyed two important advantages in her early life: her house and her family. Born on 1 August 1818, she was the third child of Quaker William and Lydia Mitchell's 10 children. Like other quakers, William Mitchell is eagerly believing that girls should receive the same education as men and men and women equally intellectually equal. William is teaching the school to work in the coastal area of ​​America and practice astronomy on an amateur basis. He teaches Mary the astronomy and navigation

Maria Mitchell was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on August 1, 1818. With the help of her father, she learned astronomy at her own time. In 1847, Mitchell later discovered a new comet known as "the comet of Mitchell Mitchell" and she was recognized by her in the world of astronomy. She later later became a professor of astronomy at Vassar College in New York and chased the sunspots with her students and photographed. Since his childhood, Mitchell's father acknowledged his interest in heaven, raised the interest in astronomy, and taught how to use the telescope. From 1836 to 1856, she served as the first librarian at Temple of Athena in Nantucket Island and studied dinner, star, Jupiter, Saturn while looking at the sky at night.