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| # Comparison with Princess of the Moon and Stars | # Comparison with Princess of the Moon and Stars |
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| Using the [[https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/the-unforgotten-sisters-sonduk-the-astronomer-queen/|Cosmos Magazine article]] for comparison. | Using the [[https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/the-unforgotten-sisters-sonduk-the-astronomer-queen/|Cosmos Magazine article]] for comparison. |
| |This angered the ambassador even more. He gave her another bit of advice: “Astronomy is not for women,” he said. “Do anything feminine, such as care of silkworms!” |When I appeared before Lin Fang for my lessons today, he dismissed me, saying, "The silkworms have need of you. Confucius would never want to stand in the way of a woman's duty to her worms." (p. 69) | | |This angered the ambassador even more. He gave her another bit of advice: “Astronomy is not for women,” he said. “Do anything feminine, such as care of silkworms!” |When I appeared before Lin Fang for my lessons today, he dismissed me, saying, "The silkworms have need of you. Confucius would never want to stand in the way of a woman's duty to her worms." (p. 69) | |
| |Eventually, this influential diplomat from a powerful neighbouring country managed to convince Sonduk’s father to preclude the princess from any further study of the stars. |"I tried to tell the Lady Sŏndŏk that astronomy is a difficult science," Lord Lin Fang suddenly interjected, and his voice was thick and icy like the weather outside. "It should not be entrusted to a woman."\\ "Sŏndŏk fancies herself an astronomer," said Father, casting an annoyed look my way. "She is a clever girl, but sometimes she oversteps her place." (p. 47) | | |Eventually, this influential diplomat from a powerful neighbouring country managed to convince Sonduk’s father to preclude the princess from any further study of the stars. |"I tried to tell the Lady Sŏndŏk that astronomy is a difficult science," Lord Lin Fang suddenly interjected, and his voice was thick and icy like the weather outside. "It should not be entrusted to a woman."\\ "Sŏndŏk fancies herself an astronomer," said Father, casting an annoyed look my way. "She is a clever girl, but sometimes she oversteps her place." (p. 47) | |
| | |Sonduk had begged her father for several years to set out on [Cheomseongdae's] building, but eventually accomplished the challenge on her own. |It is my greatest desire to one day build an observatory here dedicated only to mapping the sky. I have hinted to Father that is what I want for my New Year's gift. (p. 9)\\ "It is not an observatory," he said, as I unwrapped a small red package. Inside was a lovely golden bracelet ... I smiled weakly, trying to hide my disappointment ... (p. 43)\\ Every year I ask for the same thing--an observatory of my very own, and every year my Father pats my head like a child. (p. 44) | |
