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From the V.O. Faith and Science Pages (Younger Readers): Maria Mitchell: The Soul of an Astronomer

By Faith and Science  |  18 May 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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Today’s featured entry from the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages:

“Maria Mitchell: The Soul of an Astronomer” (CLICK HERE for it)

This book about America’s first professional woman astronomer is written for younger readers, but readers of all ages are likely to enjoy it. Written by Beatrice Gormley and published in 1995 by Eerdmans, Soul of an Astronomer descibes Mitchell’s life and scientific work, as would be expected from a biography, but it also gives much attention to her religious ideas. Mitchell was very concerned with religious matters—“Every formula which expresses a law of nature,” she once wrote, “is a hymn of praise to God”. (CLICK HERE to continue).

This book is among the Faith and Science entries for younger readers. CLICK HERE for more.


The Faith and Science pages (F&S) are a unique resource on the web. The material in F&S is stuff that you will find nowhere else (or at least not without a lot of digging). Featured areas on F&S include “History of Church and Science”; “Church and Science Today”; “Science and Scripture”; “Science, Religion & Society”; “Life in the Universe”; “Cosmology”; and more. The level of the F&S material ranges from being accessible to all audiences, with even some material oriented toward young readers, up to material for university specialists.

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