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Maria Mitchell

My favorite sentences at her biography on her association's website: "At age 12, Maria helped her father calculate the position of their home by observing a solar eclipse. By 14, sailors trusted her to do vital navigational computations for their long whaling journeys. Maria pursued her love of learning as a young woman, becoming the Nantucket Atheneum’s first librarian. She and her father continued to acquire astronomical equipment and conduct observations". - See more at: http://www.mariamitchell.org/about/about-maria-mitchell#sthash.DT0tP7Ws.dpuf

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