COMET SWEEPER (PB)

Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy in England while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Despite constant frustration of her ambitions, she was soon making scientific discoveries in her own right. She was the first woman in Britain to make her living from science and was awarded a salary by George III in 1787. Drawing on original sources, including Herschel's diaries and letters, this book tells the story of a woman determined to win independence and satisfy her astronomical ambition.