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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial ...Show more
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, 'the father of modern physics - indeed of mo ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
This is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and h ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$22.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
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
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
#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 Planets by Dava Sobel
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
After the huge national and international success of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.This groundbreaking new work traces the lives of each member of our solar family, from myth and history, astrology and science fiction, to the l ...Show more
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