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Longitude by Dava Sobel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
$17.00 AUD
Category: Science
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made vi ...Show more
The Glass Universe How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomyA New York Times Book Review Notable Book Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science FridayNomi ...Show more
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science Before they even had the righ ...Show more
The Planets by Dava Sobel
$17.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 on what is perhaps her most ambitious topic to date-the planets of our solar system. So ...Show more
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