Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780060726409
Jennifer Kahn's "Stripped for Parts" was selected as the lead story of this year's Best American Science Writing because, as Dava Sobel, best-selling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781841154947
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780802779656
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...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781417703890
-- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780140280555
-- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780802713438
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...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780007214464
In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, LONGITUDE is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781857027143
In addition to the text of Longitude this edition also contains over 200 illustrations, biographical articles on the major characters, additional boxed information on the important scientific...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780007214228
In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, LONGITUDE is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781857025712
First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780802715296
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780802717931
During the 1530s, rumors began to spread throughout Europe of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland. Its architect was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. Around 1514...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781857028508
After the huge national and international success of LONGITUDE and GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. This groundbreaking new work traces the lives of each member of our solar family...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780007241835
This is 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...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780142001165
With her bestsellers "Longitude" and "Galileoas Daughter," Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780670034468
With her blockbuster "New York Times" bestsellers "Longitude" and "Galileoas Daughter," Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to garner rave reviews and attract readers from across the literary spectrum. Now...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781841156217
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. This groundbreaking new work traces the 'lives' of each member of our solar family...
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Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781841157252
The story of Galileo's daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, as told through her letters to her father. A companion to the bestselling Galileo's Daughter...
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Dava Sobel;Arhtur Klein Arthur CKlein
ISBN:9780312130251
What is the most powerful arthritis treatment ever developed to help restore you to a healthy, pain-free, and vigorous life--for the rest of your life?
It's the very same breakthrough that has:
--Helped more arthritis sufferers than drugs...
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Dava Sobel;Arthur C Nagler WillibaldKlein
ISBN:9780312142810
What is the most powerful backache treatment ever developed to help prevent recurring back pain and restore you to a healthy, pain-free life?
The answer is exercise.
Exercise has:
Helped more bachage sufferes than drugs...
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Dava Sobel;Fritz Weaver
ISBN:9780739322901
Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief...
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Dava Sobel;Dava Sobel DavaSobel
ISBN:9780802713872
When she was 13, Virginia Galilei, eldest daughter of the great scientist Galileo, was placed by her father in a convent near him in Florence and took the name Suor Maria Celeste. Unable to see him except on his occasional visits...
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Dava Sobel;Neil Armstrong
ISBN:9780802714626
On its 10th anniversary, a gift edition of this classic book, with a forward by one of history's greatest explorers, and eight pages of color illustrations...
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Dava Sobel;Jane Jacops
ISBN:9781559273978
An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, "Longitude" is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy...
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USD $26.29
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Arthur C Klein;Dava Sobel
ISBN:9781845290733
Those who have arthritis know there is a world of difference between the treatments that doctors recommend and the treatments that actually work in practice...
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Dava Sobel;William J H Andrewes
ISBN:9780802775931
A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller "Longitude." "The Illustrated Longitude" recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often throughout the ages of exploration...
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Chet Raymo;Dava Sobel
ISBN:9780802717191
"Here Raymo seeks--and finds--the laws of nature and the existential problems of man hidden under every leaf and rock, or caught in the murmur of running water...What history is hidden outside your front door?"--"Los Angeles Times
"For almost forty years...
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Dava Sobel;Lorna Raver
ISBN:9780739322864
THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel once again brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating alien worlds...
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Sobel Dava
ISBN:9781408818008
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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