Dava Sobel
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June 15, 1947
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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1995
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
99 editions
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1999
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The Planets
46 editions
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2005
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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2016
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
37 editions
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2011
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The Best American Science Writing 2004
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2004
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And the Sun Stood Still
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2016
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Arthritis: What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief for the Rest of Your Life, Even After Drugs and Surgery Have Failed
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1989
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To Father: The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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2024
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“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”
― Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
― Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch. Even when the bulbs of the hourglass shatter, when darkness withholds the shadow from the sundial, when the mainspring winds down so far that the clock hands hold still as death, time itself keeps on. The most we can hope a watch to do is mark that progress. And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.”
― Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
― Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“[John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66”
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