Archaeoastronomy Maud Makemson Hand Signed TLS Dated 1964

  

"Archaeoastronomy" Maud Makemson Hand Signed TLS Dated 1964. 16, 1891-December 25, 1977 was an American astronomer, a specialist on.

Lavon Worcester was born in 1891 in. In 1911, her family moved to. Was working as a journalist in. When she took an interest in astronomy.

Courses and summer classes to qualify for admission to the University of. She earned a bachelor's degree from.

1925, followed by a PhD from. Her doctoral work involved calculating the. As an assistant astronomy professor in 1932; she became a full professor in.

As director of the Vassar Observatory. Makemson's interest in non-Western astronomical knowledge resulted in several.

The Morning Star Rises: An Account of Polynesian Astronomy. The Astronomical Tables of the Maya. The Book of the Jaguar Priest. A translation of a sixteenth-century text. Retired from Vassar in 1957, then taught astronomy at UCLA.

The 1960s, she joined the Applied Research Laboratories of. To consult with NASA on lunar exploration. She worked on the problem of.

Developing a way for astronauts standing on the. Moon to locate themselves precisely. Among her undergraduate students at Vassar.