Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker...
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consultant Dava Sobel (born 1947), writer of popular expositions of scientific topics David Sobel, American education writer Eleanor Sobel (born 1946)...
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Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a 1995 best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison, an 18th-century clockmaker who created the first...
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Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love is a book by Dava Sobel published in 1999. It is based on the surviving letters of Galileo Galilei's...
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footballer Dava Savel, American television producer Dava Sobel (born 1947), American scientific author Dava (singer), American pop singer This disambiguation...
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US on A&E. It is a dramatisation of the 1995 book of the same title by Dava Sobel. It was written and directed by Charles Sturridge and stars Michael Gambon...
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organized by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Dava Sobel wrote a book on Harrison's work. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius...
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Magazine, "Diary of an American Housewife." Her niece is science writer Dava Sobel. Some years after Philip Michaels' death in 1968, Gruber married longtime...
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insomnia, so he was permitted to travel to Florence for medical advice. Dava Sobel argues that prior to Galileo's 1633 trial and judgement for heresy, Pope...
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Early Twentieth Century. ABC-CLIO. pp. 181–184. ISBN 978-1-85109-665-7. Sobel, Dava (2016). The Glass Universe. Viking. p. 113. ISBN 9780698148697. Malatesta...
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pupil of Bonaventura Cavalieri. He hosted Galileo in Siena. According to Dava Sobel, Galileo's ability "to rise from the ashes of his condemnation by the...
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and dubious origins. However, the myth was revived in 1997 when author Dava Sobel presented it as an unqualified truth in her book Longitude.: 11–16 Another...
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of the Darkness: The Planet Pluto. Stackpole Books. ISBN 0811711633. Dava Sobel (1993). "The last world". Discover magazine. Archived from the original...
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stimulated by the success of the book Longitude written by journalist Dava Sobel. Some works in this series have also been written by science journalists...
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Vladimir Nabokov Winner Bobbie Ann Mason Clear Springs: A Memoir Finalist Dava Sobel Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Finalist...
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Pigliucci Steven Poole John Quiggin Emma Rothschild Claudio Saunt Anil Seth Dava Sobel Roger Scruton Eric Schwitzgebel Camilla Townsend Moshik Temkin Bryan W...
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inducement prize for a solution to the longitude problem Longitude (book), by Dava Sobel about John Harrison Longitude (TV series), a 2000 TV drama produced from...
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developed his idea and its justification independently of Aristarchus. Dava Sobel (2011) writes: "Copernicus had no idea that Aristarchus of Samos had proposed...
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dismissed it as most unlikely that this had been Galileo's intention. Dava Sobel argues that during this time, Urban had fallen under the influence of...
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Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, by Dava Sobel Navigational Algorithms http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/...
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baptismal record announced "father uncertain" (Galileo's Daughter 24, Dava Sobel, 1999). Galileo's position as a professor and his many friendships among...
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the clockmaker George Graham in Longitude, the TV drama adaptation of Dava Sobel's eponymous non-fiction novel about the quest for a means to determine...
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bias against the timekeeping method, charges repeated by authors such as Dava Sobel and Rupert Gould, Maskelyne never submitted a method or an idea of his...
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despite pink blossoms, because the primrose wafts its perfume after dark. — Dava Sobel, The Planets Some of the night-blooming plants have names indicating this...
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p. 52. Stolz 1989, p. 20. Hahn 1966, p. 65. Hahn 1966, pp. 58–64. Dava Sobel, Dava (2 July 2020). "Harriet Brooks". Linda Hall Library. Retrieved 21 July...
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a discussion of VNS Matrix and cyberfeminism. In The New York Times, Dava Sobel wrote that Broad Band and similar books "provide much needed perspective...
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In 2000, Cox portrayed Lord Morton in Longitude, a dramatisation of Dava Sobel's book. He starred as the title character in The Invention of Dr. Morel...
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Shostak 2005 Jeff Goldstein 2006 Jeffrey Rosendhal 2007 Noreen Grice 2008 Dava Sobel 2009 Isabel Hawkins 2010 Marcia Bartusiak 2011 Paul Davies 2012 Ian Ridpath...
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transformation of the German Georg into an English George (Jolas, Beuscher, ." Dava Sobel A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos – Page...
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Literature & Culture: A WWWeb Journal. 15 (1): 1–9 – via EBSCOhost. Sobel, Dava (2016). The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory...
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