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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1392 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Examines how astronomer Caroline Herschel, aviator Amy Johnson, and astronaut Sally Ride made significant contributions in the work of their choice despite male prejudice. ... Read more

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Young Caroline Herschel would never have believed it if you told her that she, along with her older brother, William, would one day be honored by kings.Brought up in Germany 200 years ago, Caroline was taught that a woman's place was in the kitchen.But she wanted a profession and independence.Then William rescued her from being the family drudge, took her to England, and trained her as a singer.At first Caroline was annoyed by the clutter of his hobby - telescope making.Later, when he became a full-time astronomer, she was bored with calculating star positions and recording observations for him.But she soon caught his enthusiasm for the stars.She found eight comets, and William discovered a heretofore unknown planet, Uranus.William's many discoveries, and Caroline's careful records, enabled people to see and understand more of the universethan ever before. ... Read more

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1925. Found in this compilation are sketches of four influential women. Elizabeth Fry was an English Quaker philanthropist who was one of the chief promoters of prison reform in Europe. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor of medicine in modern times, while Florence Nightingale was trained as a nurse, introducing sanitization during the Crimean War, lessening cases of cholera, typhus and dysentery. Finally, Mary Slessor, the Scottish factory girl, was the pioneer missionary of Calabar. ... Read more