Happy birthday, celestial Cinderella - 03/15/12 10:57 PM
March 16th! It's Caroline Herschel's 262nd birthday.
It had seemed as though the young Caroline were fated to live her life as a domestic menial and die in stunted obscurity. There was no fairy godmother available, but one brother rescued her and she went on to become a singer, the first woman to discover a comet, the first paid female astronomer and indeed one of the most famous women in Europe. With Caroline's assistance, her brother William Herschel invented modern astronomy.
You can read more here about the remarkable Caroline Herschel and her home in Bath, England.
It had seemed as though the young Caroline were fated to live her life as a domestic menial and die in stunted obscurity. There was no fairy godmother available, but one brother rescued her and she went on to become a singer, the first woman to discover a comet, the first paid female astronomer and indeed one of the most famous women in Europe. With Caroline's assistance, her brother William Herschel invented modern astronomy.
You can read more here about the remarkable Caroline Herschel and her home in Bath, England.