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Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
From the bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter comes a book of the actual letters that inspired that story. The letters span a dramatic decade and reveal an exceptional woman who also was an intelligent, pious, and literary...
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Longitude
The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated...
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The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
`A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating' The Observer `A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The...
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Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter is the story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Sobel presents the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison's 40-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.
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The Planets
After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos
The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world.
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. --
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The Glass Universe
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And the Sun Stood Still
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Sobel presents the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison's 40-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. --
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And the Sun Stood Still
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Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts
Imagined by a renowned cosmologist who holds an academic post at Galileo's old university, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of a man who transformed our view of the universe.
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Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo and the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, Sobel, a cloistered nun, dramatically reinterprets the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century...
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Longitude
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that the longitude problem was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the dayand had been for centuries.
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