“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1847, American Maria Mitchell spots comet C/1847 T1.

She goes on to be the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts of Sciences and Professor of Astronomy at the newly-founded Vassar College.

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