New Releases by Dava Sobel

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Dava Sobel fascinada per la personalitat de Galileu, ha escrit aquest llibre a partir de les cartes que Virginia, la filla gram il·legítima de Galileu, enviava al seu pare des d’un convent. El suport afectuós que ella li donava va ser la font principal de fortalesa durant els anys més productius i tumultuosos de Galileu. Aquestes cartes, que Sobel ha recuperat i que ha teixit magistralment en la narració, embelleixen la vida del pare. El resultat és un text d''una força remarcable, una biografia diferent sobre «el pare de la ciència moderna», en paraules d’Albert Einstein

Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen

Longitude, Dava Sobel''s no.1 bestseller, is the elegant biography of the lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his times. With new material from Dava Sobel and William Andrewes, and illustrated with over 200 integrated photographs, The Illustrated Longitude is the essential book for everyone who fell in love with John Harrison''s story and wants to know more. Anyone alive in the 18th 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, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. The scientific establishment throughout Europe -- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton -- had mapped the heavens in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The Illustrated Longitude is a fascinating history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. Lavishly produced with over 200 illustrations, The Illustrated Longitude has much new material to help the reader learn more of John Harrison''s extraordinary story an

An introduction to helpful exercises to perform to help find relief from backache.

Drake''s narrative account discusses the observatories around the world dedicated to detect extraterrestrial intelligence.

A Verdadeira História de Um Génio Solitário Que Resolveu o Maior Problema Científico do Seu Tempo