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; One of the nicest things I learned from writing Longitude is that a book can actually improve by virtue of being read. Numerous attentive readers took the trouble to write to me to point out typos Almost all of the correspondence about Longitude went back and forth by ordinary mail, ... 41N 72W: A science writer's site...
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The Planets uses astrology, mythology, science fiction, music, and poetry to link today's scientific exploration of the Solar System with planetary allusions in popular culture. ... Newsweek called the book "Intricate and elegant," noting, "No novelist could improve on the elements of Dava Sobel's Longitude."
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Dava Sobel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics--indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a...
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by Dava Sobel ... Dava Sobel's true story of the lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of the time-determining longitude-seems an unlikely subject for a book that has spend weeks on the best seller list, but Sobel accomplished it, her book 'Longitude' rising as high as 7th, on the New York Times '96...
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Throughout Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel draws on a collection of 124 letters written by Suor Maria Celeste to her father. These letters, now preserved in the National Central Library of Florence, narrate an enduring story of faith and love.
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Books by Dava Sobel: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest…, Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, The Planets, The Best American Science Writing 2004 (Best American Science Writing), Backache: What Exercises Work, Arthritis: What Works, Longitudine: La vera ...
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From Florence to Pluto with Dava Sobel -- Newsweek calls The Planets "a guided tour so imaginative that we forget we're being educated while we're being entertained." The Telegraph marvels, "Sobel's enthusiasm for her subject is absolute, and she succeeds... ... From Florence to Pluto with Dava Sobel; Dave Weich, Powells.com ;
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