~Subtler minds in the Middle Ages already knew that every man “carries
Eve, his wife, hidden in his body”. It Is this feminine element in every
man (based on the minority of female genes in his biological make-up)
which I have called the anima.~ C.G. Jung
Happy birthday to astronomer Annie Jump Cannon! Did you know she could classify about three stars a minute? Born in 1863, she attended Wellesley College in 1880, studying physics and astronomy, and later worked with Edward C. Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory as a “computer.” Cannon was known for her skills in star classification—in fact, her simplified system for classifying stars according to their temperature was adopted as the universal standard in the early 1900s and is still used today. She classified more than 225,000 stars over her lifetime! Cannon was also the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, as well as the first women to be elected as an officer of the American Astronomical Society. Image: Smithsonian Institution
– Mary Elizabeth Haskell (1873-1964), in a letter to Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931), November 9, 1914 in “Beloved prophet; the love letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell and her private journal“
