“Bordering on the Marvellous”: The Astronomical Menagerie of Williamina Paton Fleming
When William Huggins became the first human to examine the spectrum of a star in 1864, he could little have imagined the magnitude of the project he had brough...
Dale DeBakcsy is the writer and artist of the Women In Science and Cartoon History of Humanism columns, and has, since 2007, co-written the webcomic Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy with Geoffrey Schaeffer. He is also a regular contributor to The Freethinker, Philosophy Now, Free Inquiry, and Skeptical Inquirer. He studied intellectual history at Stanford and UC Berkeley before becoming a teacher of mathematics and drawer of historical frippery.