Caroline's comets
Comets
Astronomers
Discoveries in science
Women scientists
Scientists
Women, biography
Women
Juvenile literature
Biography
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) was not only one of the greatest astronomers who ever lived but also the first woman to be paid for her scientific work. Born the youngest daughter of a poor family in Hanover, Germany, she was scarred from smallpox, stunted from typhus, and used by her parents as a scu…
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