Photometer
notes: label: Description
content: Mary W. Whitney studied with Maria Mitchell and, in 1887, succeeded Mitchell as professor of astronomy at Vassar College. Whitney's major research project involved tracing the light curves of variable stars. Some of this work was done with this wedge photometer acquired in 1903.
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content: Ref: Mary W. Whitney and Carline E. Furness, “Observations of Variable Stars Made During the Years 1901-12,” Publications of the Vassar College Observatory 3 (1913).
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content: Caroline E. Furness, An Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars (Boston, 1915), pp. 127-128.
label: Description
content: “Reports of Observatories,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 16 (1904): 104-116, on 116.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0318.10
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0318.10
label: accession number
content: 1980.0318
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 13.6525 cm x 20.0025 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 11/16 in x 5 3/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 4.28625 cm x 13.6525 cm x 19.3675 cm