Whatever Shines Should be Observed: [quicquid nitet notandum]

It is good to mark the new Millennium by looking back as well as forward. Whatever Shines Should Be Observed looks to the nineteenth century to celebrate the achievements of five distinguished women, four of whom were born in Ireland while the fifth married into an Irish family, who made pioneering contributions to photography, microscopy, astronomy and astrophysics.
The women featured came from either aristocratic or professional families. Thus, at first sight, they had many material adva...