The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Maria Mitchell

• Maria Mitchell, 2011. Vassar College Encyclopedia [Vassar College]
• Maria Mitchell: Stellar Scientist, Mary Draper Janney, 1988. Spiritsail (PDF) [Wood's Hole Museum]
• Maria Mitchell, JoAnn Macdonald, 2012. Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography [Unitarian Universalist Association]
• Maria Mitchell. Young and Brave: Girls Changing History [National Women's History Museum]
• Maria Mitchell Discovers a Comet, 2006/10. This Month in Physics History [APS]
• Wikipedia
• Lucid Cafe
• Short Biography (good print bibliography) [National Women's Hall of Fame]
• Short Biography (links to digitized sources) Women Working 1800-1930 [Harvard University Libraries]
• Maria Mitchell, John Lienhard, 1997. Engines of Our Ingenuity [University of Houston]
• Maria Mitchell, 2012. [She is an Astronomer]
• Maria Mitchell, Danuta Bois, 1996. [Distinguished Women of Past and Present]
• Outline of Mitchell's Life [Women in History]
• Very Short Life, 2005. Women in Science [Inventions.org]
• Bibliography, Andrew Fraknoi, 2008. (print and online sources) Women in Astronomy [Astronomical Society of the Pacific]
• Maria Mitchell Association
  • Vassar College Encyclopedia entry
• Short note and picture, 1998/10/10. Astronomy Picture of the Day [NASA]
• Science Hero: Maria Mitchell, Shannon, 2008. [My Hero Project]
• Marial Mitchell, Michael L., Michael M., and Jonathan M., 2004. (aimed at children) Children's Encyclopedia of Women [Pocantico Hill Schools]
• Printable Biography (aimed at 4^th-8^th graders) [TeacherVision]

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