...instrument might become wonderfully Accurate in results ; a woman's eyes are trained to a nicety of colour. The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes...embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spider-web of the micrometer. Routine observations, too, dull as they are, are less dull than the endless...

...particularly fitted to women. A girl's eye is trained from early childhood to be keen, trained to the nicety of color. The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer. ELIZABETH. When a woman pulls a cotton washrag...

...a phantom-like intangibility— we seem not to be able to bring it under the laws of science. . . . From age to age the colors of some prominent stars...embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spider-web of the micrometer. Routine observations, too, dull as they are, are less dull than the endless...

...(1908:82,100-103). 237-38). "The training of a girl fits her for delicate work." Mitchell argued that "The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes...bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer." Skill and care in delicate work such as embroidery and other forms of sewing trained the hand and eye...

...traits among the committed clinicians who have preserved the passion for medicine. LOIS DeBAKEY 154 The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes...bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer. MARIA MITCHELL (1818-1889) 156 157 :58 It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life....