Grasping Mysteries
Grasping Mysteries "Informative, pithy, wry, very readable." --BooklistLearn about seven groundbreaking women in math and science in this gorgeously written biographical novel-in-verse, a companion…
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Grasping Mysteries
"Informative, pithy, wry, very readable." --BooklistLearn about seven groundbreaking women in math and science in this gorgeously written biographical novel-in-verse, a companion to Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science.After a childhood spent looking up at the stars, Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet and to earn a salary for scientific research. The first female electrical engineer, Hertha Marks Ayrton registered twenty-six patents for her inventions.Marie Tharp helped create the first map of the entire ocean floor, which helped scientists understand our subaquatic world and suggested how the continents shifted. Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing nurse whose work reformed hospitals and one of the founders of the field of medical statistics.
A mathematical prodigy, Katherine