The Planets
by Dava Sobel · 1 Jan 2005 · 190pp · 52,570 words
PENGUIN BOOKS THE PLANETS Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and Letters to Father. In her thirty years as a
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Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. In recognition of her writing about astronomy, asteroid 30935 has been named in her honor. THE PLANETS DAVA SOBEL PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. • Penguin Group (Canada
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, 2006 All rights reserved Some of the ideas expressed in chapter one appeared in slightly different format in “A Reporter at Large: Among Planets” by Dava Sobel, published in The New Yorker, December 9, 1996. Parts of chapter six appeared in a “Hers” column, called “Moon Dust,” by
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Dava Sobel, in The New York Times Magazine, October 1, 1995. Excerpt from The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective by Carl Sagan, produced by Jerome Agel. Used
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“The Planets: A Pastoral” by Diane Ackerman, used with permission of the poet. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS: Sobel, Dava. The Planets / by Dava Sobel p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-1-101-65948-9 1. Planets. 2. Solar system. I. Title. QB601.S63 2005
The Elements of Marie Curie
by Dava Sobel · 20 Aug 2024 · 346pp · 96,466 words
THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE HOW THE GLOW OF RADIUM LIT A PATH FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE Dava Sobel Copyright 4th Estate An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thEstate.co.uk HarperCollinsPublishers Macken House 39/40 Mayor Street
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LLC. Used by permission of Schocken Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Dava Sobel asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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. ÈVE (Radiophosphorus) Epilogue. MARGUERITE (Francium) Picture Section Footnotes The Radioactivists Annotations Glossary Radioactive Decay Series Quotation Sources Bibliography Appreciation Index About the Author Also by Dava Sobel About the Publisher Preface Formula for an Icon: Marie Curie (1867–1934) Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only
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comparison, 70 Yamada, Nobuo, 198–99, 218, 223–24 Yovanovitch, Dragolijub, 196, 198, 214 Zeeman, Pieter, 246, 265 Zorawski family, 9–11 About the Author DAVA SOBEL is the author of the international bestseller Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, And the Sun
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. A former New York Times science reporter and current editor of the Meter poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island. Also by Dava Sobel The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars And the Sun Stood Still: A Play A More
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Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos The Planets Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623–1633 (translated by Dava Sobel) Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love The Illustrated Longitude (with William J. H. Andrewes) Longitude: The True Story of a
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt · 30 Sep 2017 · 345pp · 84,847 words
of £20,000 (the equivalent of $1 million in today’s money) for anyone who devised a way to accurately measure longitude. As science historian Dava Sobel writes, “This power over purse strings made the Board of Longitude perhaps the world’s first official research-and-development agency.”8 The early results
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/> Snelson, Robert. “X Prize Losers: Still in the Race, Not Doing Anything, or Too SeXy for The X Cup?” The Space Review. September 26, 2005. Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Walker, 1995. Soble, Jonathan. “Kenji Ekuan
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Thomas A. Edison, “The Phonograph and Its Future,” Scientific American 5, no. 124 (1878): 1973-4, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican05181878-1973supp> 7 Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (New York: Walker, 1995). 8
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Dava Sobel, Longitude. 9 Unfortunately, Harrison never received his due. To test whether Harrison’s elaborate design could be manufactured by others, the Board of Longitude commissioned
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Thomas A. Edison, “The Phonograph and Its Future,” Scientific American 5, no. 124 (1878): 1973-4, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican05181878-1973supp> 7 Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (New York: Walker, 1995). 8
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Dava Sobel, Longitude. 9 Unfortunately, Harrison never received his due. To test whether Harrison’s elaborate design could be manufactured by others, the Board of Longitude commissioned
More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos
by Dava Sobel · 1 Sep 2011 · 271pp · 68,440 words
A More PERFECT HEAVEN How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos DAVA SOBEL Contents Cover Title Page Decdication “To the Reader, Concerning … This Work” Part One • Prelude Chapter 1 Moral, Rustic, and Amorous Epistles Chapter 2 The Brief
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Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus Thanksgiving Copernican Chronology Notes on the Quotations Illustration Credits Maps Bibliography Footnotes A Note on the Author Also by Dava Sobel Imprint To my fair nieces, AMANDA SOBEL and CHIARA PEACOCK, with love in the Copernican tradition of nepotism. “To the Reader, Concerning … This Work” Since
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Eber about their discovery, and Eber in turn reported it to Melanchthon in a surviving letter of April 15, 1541. A Note on the Author Dava Sobel is the acclaimed author of the New York Times and international bestsellers Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets, and the coauthor of The Illustrated
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Longitude. She lives in East Hampton, New York. Also by Dava Sobel Longitude The Illustrated Longitude (with William J. H. Andrewes) Galileo’s Daughter The Planets Letters to Father (translated and annotated) Copyright © 2011 by
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Dava Sobel All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 10 Sep 2018 · 745pp · 207,187 words
“length,” respectively, denoting a binary directionality in early maps of the known world. But the difference between the two goes very deep. The American historian Dava Sobel describes it this way: The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts
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on Shipboard will always remain among the Desiderata.”67 Surely a reliable portable timepiece would be a better solution. It would “enabl[e] mariners,” writes Dava Sobel, “to carry the home-port time with them, like a barrel of water or a side of beef.” The rub was reliability. In 1500, even
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place. See discussion of Necho’s seventh-century BC and Carthaginian king Hanno’s fifth-century BC voyages in Casson, Ancient Mariners, 116–24. 24.Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (New York: Walker, 2005), 4. 25.Taylor, Haven
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), 223–34. Smith, Marcia S. “Military and Civilian Satellites in Support of Allied Forces in the Persian Gulf War.” Congressional Research Service, Feb. 27, 1991. Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. New York: Walker, 2005. Space Foundation. The Space
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, 162, 329, 396, 397 Skunk Works (Lockheed Aircraft), 198, 276, 469n Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), 224–25 Smith, John, 436n Snowden, Edward, 14, 413n Sobel, Dava, 73, 95 Socrates, 46 sodium, spectroscopy of, 145, 146 Sorrows of Empire, The (Johnson), 35 Sotheby’s, 361–62 Soviet Union atomic and nuclear bomb
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by Dava Sobel · 25 May 2009 · 363pp · 108,670 words
DAVA SOBEL GALILEO’S DAUGHTER A Historical Memoir of Science, faith, and love CONTENTS PART ONE. TO FLORENCE [I] She who was so precious to you [II]
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Edition of the Holy Bible. The translation of Galileo’s daughter’s letters from the original Italian are the author’s own. Copyright © 1999 by Dava Sobel All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying
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in the United States of America in 1999 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s daughter: a historical memoir of science, faith, and love/Dava Sobel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. eISBN: 978-0-802-77747-8 1. Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Correspondence. 2. Galilei
Longitude
by Dava Sobel · 1 Jan 1995 · 128pp · 38,963 words
LONGITUDE The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time DAVA SOBEL Contents 1. Imaginary Lines 2. The Sea Before Time 3. Adrift in a Clockwork Universe 4. Time in a Bottle 5. Powder of Sympathy 6.
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Press, 1992. Wood, Peter H. “La Salle: Discovery of a Lost Explorer,” in American Historical Review, Vol. 89 (1984) pp. 294-323. Copyright © 1995 by Dava Sobel All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying
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in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Canada, Limited, Markham, Ontario Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sobel, Dava. Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time / Dava Sobel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. eISBN: 978-0-802-77943-4 1. Longitude—Measurement—History. 2
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by Dava Sobel · 6 Dec 2016 · 442pp · 110,704 words
Also by Dava Sobel Longitude Galileo’s Daughter Letters to Father The Planets A More Perfect Heaven And the Sun Stood Still (a play) VIKING An imprint of Penguin
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with permission; here: Richard E. Schmidt, used with permission Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Sobel, Dava. Title: The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars / Dava Sobel. Description: New York : Viking, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016029496 (print) | LCCN 2016030208
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Michaels, Lois Morris, Chiara Peacock, Sarah Pillow, Rita Reiswig, Lydia Salant, Amanda Sobel, Margaret Thompson, and Wendy Zomparelli, with love and thanks CONTENTS Also by Dava Sobel Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface PART ONE The Colors of Starlight CHAPTER ONE Mrs. Draper’s Intent CHAPTER TWO What Miss Maury Saw CHAPTER THREE
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets
by John McMillan · 1 Jan 2002 · 350pp · 103,988 words
early precedent for a buyout is the prize the British Parliament offered in the eighteenth century for a method of determining longitude, as chronicled by Dava Sobel in her absorbing book Longitude. Untold lives had been lost in shipwrecks caused by navigation errors, so the prize offered was a rich £20,000
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devil is in the details. Two difficulties must be resolved. The promise to pay must be credible. Following the invention of the chronometer, according to Dava Sobel, the British government balked at paying Harrison the £20,000 prize, raising spurious objections. Harrison struggled the rest of his life for acknowledgment, receiving the
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. Smith, Eugene. 1975. Minamata, New York, Holt, Rinehart, Winston. Smith, Vernon L. 1982. “Microeconomic Systems as an Experimental Science.” American Economic Review 72, 923–955. Sobel, Dava. 1996. Longitude. New York, Penguin. Sobel, Joel, and Takahashi, Ichiro. 1983. “A Multistage Model of Bargaining.” Review of Economic Studies 50, 411–426. Sobel, Robert
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure
by Tim Harford · 1 Jun 2011 · 459pp · 103,153 words
points I drew heavily on the writing or broadcasting of the following people: Loren Graham, Thomas Ricks, David Cloud, Greg Jaffe, George Packer, Leo McKinstry, Dava Sobel, Ian Parker, Sebastian Mallaby, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jennifer Hughes, Gary Hamel, Peter Day, Michael Buerk, Twyla Tharp and Kathryn Schulz. I am indebted. I am
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to risk their money’: McKinstry, Spitfire, pp. 34–5. 105 There is an inconvenient tale behind this: I have drawn much of this account from Dava Sobel’s Longitude (London: Fourth Estate, 1996). 106 Compared with the typical wage of the day: Officer, ‘Purchasing power of British pounds’, cited above, n. 10
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, 50 Sims, Karl, 13–14, 174, 176 Singapore, 150 Singer, 9, 10, 15 Skunk Works division, Lockheed, 89, 93, 224, 242 Smith, Adam, 143, 147 Sobel, Dava, Longitude, 107* solar power, 84, 91, 96, 179, 245 Solidarity movement, Polish, 26 Sorkin, Andrew Ross, 193 South Africa, 147 South Korea, 146–7, 152
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the King himself, also awarded the inventor a substantial purse in lieu of the prize that never came. The sad story is superbly told by Dava Sobel in her book Longitude, although Sobel perhaps gives Harrison too much credit in one respect: it is arguable that by producing a seaworthy clock, albeit
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