Table of contents for Miss Leavitt's stars : the untold story of the forgotten woman who discovered how to measure the universe / George Johnson.

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Preface
Prologue. The Village in the Canyon
Chapter 1. Black Stars, White Nights
Chapter 2. Hunting for Variables
Chapter 3. Henrietta's Law
Chapter 4. Triangles
Chapter 5. Shapley's Ants
Chapter 6. The Late, Great Milky Way
Chapter 7. In the Realm of the Nebulae
Chapter 8. The Mysterious K
Chapter 9. The Cosmic Stampede
Chapter 10. Ghost Stories
Epilogue: Fire on the Mountain
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Astrometry -- History.
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, 1868-1921.
Astronomical photometry.
Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.