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Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, American mathematician and astronomer, 1903. Artist: Unknown

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, American mathematician and astronomer, 1903. Artist: Unknown

1-158-592 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, American mathematician and astronomer, 1903. Roberts (1861-1942) at work on the Carte du Ciel at the Paris Observatory. She is using a plate-measuring microscope to measure positions of star images on photographic plates. She was the first woman to make astronomical observations from a balloon. From La Science Illustree. (Paris, December 1903).

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  1. Dorothea Klumpke Roberts: American: Astronomer
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  1. 48 52 00 N , 002 20 00 E
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