Maria+Mitchell



[|http://www.biography.com/people/maria-mitchell-9410353#death-and-legacy]

Overview: This website starts off by telling us Maria's main achievement, which was discovering a new comet which was later given the name Mrs. Mitchell's comet.Then gives us a background look at Maria's life, talking mainly about her relationship with her dad, whom noticed her interest in the skies at an early age an showed her how to use a microscope. The website goes on to describe the day of her discovery of the comet on October 1, 1897 at the age of 28. She was on the roof at her fathers job with a telescope when she came across the comet and was later presented with a gold medal in honor of her discovery by Fredrick VI, king of Denmark. The end of the article talks briefly about her death on June 28, 1889 and her achievements such as being inducted in the Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.

Author: Biography.com Editors

Date of Publication: n/a

Date Reviewed: 12/8/2015

Reviewed by: cindygomez.15

Accuracy: This website seems pretty accurate on the information it gives, although most of it is just simple facts. I feel like the author should have gave more details about her life and what became of her in the years after her discovery.

Readability and Clarity: The website was very clear and all the words were super simple. The intended audience for this website was probably anywhere from 6th to 8th grade.

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Overview : This website gives a lot of background information about Maria's life including information about her family, different schools she attended, her relationships as well as her accomplishments. This website states that her father was the principal at North Grammar, where she attended school and that her fascination with stars came from him when he began to take her out to explore the stars with his telescope and by the age of 12 she was helping him calculate when the exact time of the annual eclipse would be. Maria was the first women in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well the American Association for Advancement of Science after being in both of these she began to work for the US Nautical Almanac Office where she calculated tables for the positions of planets. Maria lived in the days when women's rights were not equal to those of mens, therefore her findings not only made her known in Astronomy but in history as well.

Author: N/A Date of Publication: N/A

Reviewed by Cindygomez.15

Review Date: 12/9

Accuracy and Clarity: This website was pretty lengthy but the information was great, a few words here and there were difficult to understand but overall for sure a high school level website. The audience for this website could be for females that are both interested in history as well as astronomy.



http://www.mariamitchell.org/about/about-maria-mitchell

Overview: This website starts of by setting the record straight stating that Maria's name is actually pronounced Mariah! Goes on later to tell a few of her titles such as astronomer, librarian, Quaker, naturalist as well as educator. This site also goes on to talk about her relationship with her father and how that is what brought on her interest in astronomy. At the age of 14 Maria was computing navigation's for sailors for their long journeys. Maria was the first female librarian in Nantucket, Mass. where she saved her money to be able to purchase more astronomical equitment to conduct observations with her father. The end of this website says that her initial description of the comet was, "a a small blurry object in the sky that was not on her charts." After her discovery she went on to travel in the US and Europe and continued to teach.

Author: Herminia B Dassel

Date: 1851

Reviewed on: 12/8/2015

Accuracy and Clarity: This was another short but very informative site, I enjoyed how it gave detail about her findings and relationship with her father. All the words in this article were relatively simple and easy to understand.



http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/index.php/history/maria-mitchell

Review: In this Article it talks about Maria being one of nine children and how hard her parents stressed education. Her father had founded his own school where she attended, and at the age of 17 she opened up her own school that closed a year later when she decided to become a librarian which she chose over a principal because it paid well as well as gaave her time to read and study.Around the same time her father also took on a new job as a cashier of Pacific Bank, which became useful when he began to build an observatory on top of the roof at his job which was where Maria made her discovery from.

Author: She is an Astronomer

Date: N/A

Reviewed by: Cindy Gomez

Accuracy and Clarity: This Website was very informative and easy to understand, there weren't any words that i did not comprehend and it was over all an easy read. The intended audience would probably be for middle schoolers because of the length and simpleness of the words but it was all great information.



https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200610/history.cfm

Review this website was great it gave many small details that the other websites failed to include, such as how her family owned a small 2 inch telescope that which her and her brotheres and sisters helped their father make observations and night. The website says that she, of all of her brothers and sisters was the one that had the main interest in astronomy even when she had company, if the skies were clear Maria was out on her roof observing. The website then talks about the day of her discovery and how she had seen a small blur but did not make a big deal of it, instead she drew it and watched it for a few days before going on and telling her father once she knew what it was. She was later awarded a medal from the King of Denmark, The end goes on to say she is not very well known but that she defenatly paved the way for female astronomers.

Author: Alan Chodos

Date: 1995

Rate Reviewed: 12/8/2015

Accuracy and Clarity: This website was very easy to ready and not too lengthy. The intended audience might have been someone looking for a few major facts to write a paper and it sure did give a few!