by Dava Sobel · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494645310
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«El universo de cristal» is the popular science essay by Dava Sobel, published by Capitán Swing in paperback (366 pages, in Spanish).
The work recounts the history of the women who worked at the Harvard College Observatory at the beginning of the twentieth century. Known as the Harvard Computers, they examined photographic plates of the sky, classified stars and contributed to modern astrophysics despite gender barriers.
The Spanish edition was published in 2016 and is listed in the categories of science and history.
For readers interested in popular science, the history of astronomy and the biographies of women scientists.
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Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers.
