Meet the First Woman Astronomer at the Vatican Observatory

Earlier this year, Springer published the book Italian Contributions to Planetary Astronomy: From the Discovery of Ceres to Pluto’s Orbit, edited by Vatican Observatory Adjunct Scholar Ileana Chinnici. Chinnici is also a Research astronomer with the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, INAF (National Institute for Astrophysics, Palermo), Italy. The book is focused on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a “golden era of Italian astronomy”, as the publisher’s website describes it…