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Vintage “Archaeoastronomy" Maud Makemson Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1964: $279.99
Up for sale "Archaeoastronomy" Maud Makemson Hand Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1964.
16, 1891—December 25, 1977) was an American astronomer, a specialist on archaeoastronomy, and director of Vassar Observatory. Maud Lavon Worcester was born in 1891 in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. She attended Girls' Latin School in Boston. She briefly attended Radcliffe College, but left to teach school. In 1911, her family moved to Pasadena, California. She was working as a journalist in Bisbee, Arizona when she took an interest in astronomy. She returned to California and taught school while taking correspondence courses and summer classes to qualify for admission to the University of California. She earned a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1925, followed by a PhD from University of California at Berkeley in 1930. Her doctoral work involved calculating the orbits of asteroids. Maud Worcester Makemson joined the Vassar College faculty as an assistant astronomy professor in 1932; she became a full professor in 1944. In 1936, she succeeded Caroline Furness as director of the Vassar Observatory. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1941 to study Maya astronomy,[4] and was a Fulbright Scholar in Japan and India in 1953-1954. Makemson's interest in non-Western astronomical knowledge resulted in several monographs, The Morning Star Rises: An Account of Polynesian Tables of the Maya (1943), The Maya Book of the Jaguar Priest (1951, a translation of a sixteenth-century text). Makemson retired from Vassar in 1957, then taught astronomy at UCLA. She co-authored a textbook, Introduction to Astrodynamics (1960) with Robert M. L. Baker, Jr. In the 1960s, she joined the Applied Research Laboratories of General Dynamics, to consult with NASA on lunar exploration. She worked on the problem of selenography, developing a way for astronauts standing on the moon to locate themselves precisely. Among her undergraduate students at Vassar was astronomer Vera Rubin, to whom she gave a celestial globe.
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Vintage “Archaeoastronomy" Maud Makemson Signed 3X5 Card Dated 1964 $279.99
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