Mitchell is the narrator in the Latin-language book for kids.
"One of the things that I am generally very interested in — as someone who loves history and who loves nerdy science things and who loves literature and languages — is all the voices that get lost through time," Cunning told Space.com in an interview earlier in March, which is Women's History Month.
"There are a lot of voices that get lost," Cunning continued,"and unfortunately, they tend to be women's voices."In a unique crossover concerning women in astronomy and education, astronomer Maria Mitchell is cast as the narrator of a simple Latin language book describing the solar system, its planets and ancient myths. The book is targeted for grade school children with large images.
Latin was the language of ancient Rome and, for a time, much of the world the imperialist ancients conquered; Latin then continued for centuries afterward as the primary language of the Christian church. Much of the existing Latin literature today is male, but a precious minority of writing is female and receiving more scholar attention. It is thought that female voices were lost over the ages due not only to a lack of literacy or time to write, but also because the medieval preservationists who rewrote fading ancient manuscripts in what we now call Europe and the Middle East were not as inclined to include female voices.
Latin's descendants live on today in languages like French, Spanish and Portuguese . But Latin is barely taught in schools or universities any more. That said, there is a growing"living Latin" movement of YouTubers, novella writers and teachers who use Latin in classes as a spoken language, rather than a grammar puzzle. That's where the book about Mitchell comes in.
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