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Earth scienceLA Theater Works: Amanda Quaid's play about Eunice Newton Foote
Posted March 8, 2025 by JeSoPazza in STEM

'Circumstances affecting the heat of the Sun's rays'

You may not know her name, but Eunice Newton Foote made groundbreaking discoveries about the greenhouse effect in the 1850s. Her experiments showed that different gases, including carbon dioxide, absorb and trap heat, an early milestone in the history of climate science. And even though her findings were published in a leading scientific journal – a rarity in the days of a male-dominated field – her work remained virtually unknown until recently. Now, thanks to playwright Amanda Quaid, we have a dramatized portrait of the scientist’s life at the time she published her pioneering study, which lends its name to the title of the play.

https://streaming.latw.org/circumstances-affecting-the-heat-of-the-sun-rsquo-s-rays#!#viewMeta

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