Daring to discussa forbidden topic Aug 30, 2008
Dava Sobel is the author of "Longitude," "Galileo's Daughter" and "The Planets." She is at work on a play about Copernicus. (). (Globe and Mail)
Why Implausibility Sells Jun 23, 2008
And then there's the harder-to-name category of tales of intellectual eccentricity, sometimes with a crime thrown in, which Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel have made their own. Such books often have subtitles beginning with "the true story of" (Sobel's Longitude and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm) or "the fantastic story of" (Winchester's The Man Who Loved China), as though implausibility is itself the major selling point. (Slate)
Galileo's Daughter Jun 8, 2008
Galileo s Daughter is Dava Sobel s critically acclaimed follow-up to her international bestseller Longitude ... Galileo s Daugther: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel, published in 1999 by Walker Publishing Company, USA.. (Suite101.com)
Astronomers' meeting in St. Louis offers free public events May 31, 2008
A lecture by Dava Sobel, best-selling author of "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter," and former New York times science writer, also is free and open to the public, at 8 p.m., June 2, at America's Center ballroom. She will present a nontechnical talk on "How Galileo and the Telescope Changed Everything.". (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Galileo Versus Catholicism Mar 15, 2008
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. celebrity writers. (Suite101.com)
Green Highlander blazes the hybrid trail Feb 8, 2008
In her best-selling book Longitude Dava Sobel outlines how two different approaches were employed to address an 18th century transportation problem the need for ships at sea to be able to determine their location. Leading solutions included a complex, time-consuming method that involved (no kidding) observing the positions of the moons of Jupiter. (MSNBC -- Business)
The ghost following Bush Dec 18, 2007
"Such subversive navigation by an inferior was forbidden in the Royal Navy," according to Dava Sobel in her brilliant book "Longitude," and so "Admiral Shovell had the man hanged for mutiny on the spot.". The 57-year-old Sir Clowdisley stayed the course, oblivious in his ignorance and upright in his optimism, until, one by one, his ships wrecked in the Scilly Isles with great loss of life, including his own. (Boston Globe)
Book review: An ocean of air Aug 6, 2007
Like Dava Sobel in "The Planets," Walker writes for a general audience and seems to assume something close to scientific illiteracy in her readers. There is plenty of gee-whiz and tee-hee in her merry tale, a colorful blend of anecdote, personality and pure science explained in the simplest terms. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Greenwich Planetarium Opens May 22, 2007
The observatory was part of the mission to determine longitude, the story told by Dava Sobel in a best-selling book. The new Royal Observatory will be opened by the Queen on Tuesday and will be open to the public from next Friday. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Read more... Apr 21, 2007
The new Fellows also include Neil Foley, who is studying civil rights in Texas and the Southwest, 1940-1965; David Frankfurter of Durham, New Hampshire, who is researching Christianization in late antique Egypt; the poet, Erica Funkhouser, who is a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ann Gale, a painter from Seattle, Washington; Enrique Garca Santo-Toms, who is studying fiction by war veterans in early modern Spanish literature, 1550-1680; Melissa James Gibson, a playwright... (PNN Online)
Modernising the house TS Eliot built Mar 16, 2007
Before joining Fourth Estate, the critically-acclaimed publisher responsible for writers such as Carol Shields and Dava Sobel, Page's career was with mass-market firms ... Authors included Dava Sobel and Annie Proulx. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The science of a good science book Jan 2, 2007
These qualities dominate works by acknowledged master science popularizers like Ritchie Calder, Dava Sobel, Lewis Thomas and Jeremy Bernstein. The same ingredients are also found in a satisfying number of the popular science books published this year. (Toronto Star)
