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unforgotten_sisters:start [2025/04/01 06:22] – Added section on Women of Korea and a link to transcript ljwritesunforgotten_sisters:start [2025/04/02 14:46] (current) – Deleted for redundancy (mistaken namespace) ljwrites
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-# Unforgotten sisters investigation: Main page 
  
-From an unfortunate need to investigate fiction or baseless claims about Queen Seondeok/Cheomseongdae being presented as fact in Gabriella Bernardi's The Unforgotten Sisters: Astronomers and Scientists before Caroline Herschel (2016 Springer Praxis) 
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-## Cosmos Magazine article 
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-[The unforgotten sisters: Sonduk, the astronomer queen](https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/the-unforgotten-sisters-sonduk-the-astronomer-queen/) Archived version https://archive.is/j7d1n 
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-  * Same problems as the book chapter on Seondeok in presenting details from Sheri Holman's novel Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars (2002 Scholastic) without credit to Holman or adequate notice of the fictional content 
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-## Fediverse thread 
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-[Thread on writeout.ink](https://writeout.ink/@ljwrites/113164984973469900) 
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-## Women of Korea on Seondeok 
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-  * Yung-Chung Kim, Women of Korea: A History from Ancient Times to 1945 2nd ed. (1977) 
-    * Index of Queen Sonduk references: 23, 24, 27, 42 (Apparent mistake for 25, 26, 27, 42) 
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-This book does not appear to have any mention of Seondeok's passion for astronomy, her having a Tang ambassador as a tutor, etc. See [[wok_transcript]]. 
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