Dava Sobel: 14 books
by Dava Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe will be available from Viking in December 2016
With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full talents to bear...
by Dava Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Using her deep knowledge, her skills as a storyteller, and her imagination, Dava Sobel illuminates one of history's most significant and far-reaching meetings. In the spring of 1539, a young German mathematician--Georg Joachim Rheticus--journeyed hundreds of miles to northern Poland to meet the legendary,...
Galileo's Daughter
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
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...
A More Perfect Heaven
How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the...
Un cielo pluscuamperfecto
Copérnico y la revolución del cosmos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Dava Sobel, autora del best-seller de culto Longitud, recrea la vida de Copérnico, el hombre que se atrevió a decir, hace casi quinientos años, que la Tierra no era el centro del universo. Cómo lo supo, cómo lo intentó demostrar, cómo lo escribió... es una historia que Sobel convierte en una...
The Glass Universe
How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian,...
Arthritis: What Exercises Work
Breakthrough Relief for the Rest of Your Life, Even After Drugs and Surgery Have Failed
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
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, surgery, or any other treatment--without dangerous...
Backache
What Exercises Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
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 bachache sufferes than drugs, surgery, or any other treatment--without dangerous side effects
Been...
by Dava Sobel
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Der Kosmos ist kalt, groß und unbegreifbar? Nicht bei Dava Sobel. Unnachahmlich vermittelt sie Wissenschaft erzählerisch und packend. Wer nach den Sternen fragt, so die Botschaft dieses charmanten und klugen Buches, wird am Ende immer wieder auf der Erde landen. Denn die Geschichte der neun Planeten...
Und die Sonne stand still
Wie Kopernikus unser Weltbild revolutionierte
Language: German
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Schon um das Jahr 1514 verfasste Nikolaus Kopernikus eine erste Skizze seiner heliozentrischen Theorie. Nicht die Erde stand demnach im Mittelpunkt des Universums, sondern die Sonne, und die Planeten umkreisten sie. Diese Schrift war revolutionär, aber nur einem kleinen Kreis von Astronomen bekannt....
Galileos Tochter
Eine Geschichte von der Wissenschaft, den Sternen und der Liebe
Language: German
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Celeste ging bereits als junges Mädchen ins Kloster. Über hundert Briefe an den Vater sind erhalten und zeigen einen Galileo, wie wir ihn nicht kennen: voller Mut, die Wahrheiten, auf die er stieß, zu erklären. Sobel versteht es meisterlich, die Stimmen von Galileo und seiner Tochter in ihre Erzählung...
Das Glas-Universum
Wie die Frauen die Sterne entdeckten
Language: German
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Es war die Zeit, in der Edison mit seiner elektrischen Glühbirne für Aufsehen sorgte, als Frauen an der amerikanischen Ostküste erstmals die Gestirne erkundeten. Ein Professor der Harvard University engagierte sie Anfang der 1880er-Jahre zunächst als "Computer" – als Rechnerinnen – am Observatorium....
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was...
by Dava Sobel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2018
A mediados del siglo XIX, el Observatorio de Harvard comenzó a emplear a mujeres como calculadoras o "computadoras humanas" para interpretar las observaciones que sus contrapartes masculinas realizaban por telescopio cada noche. Al principio este grupo incluía a las esposas, hermanas e...