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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
$35.00 AUD
Category: General History
The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world.
Illustrated Longitude by SOBEL DAVA
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often throughout the ages of exploration, voyages ended in disaster whe ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science
"The longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day in the 18th century. It meant that, unable to measure their longitude, sailors were lost as soon as they lost sight of land. This book tells the story of John Harrison, an Englishman who imagined a mechanical solution.
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | 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 Illustrated Longitude - The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel; William J H Andrewes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
To Father: The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 by Dava Sobel
$28.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Translated and annotataed by Dava Sobel,author of Longitude & Galileo's Daughter.Galileo's daughter was her father's greatest source of strength during his most difficult years.Now readers can follow their story in her own words.From a social perspective,here is a haunting glimpse into the mind of a ...Show more
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