About Annie Jump Cannon: Annie Jump Cannon is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures. She was nearly deaf throughout her career.
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
No greater problem is presented to the human mind.
