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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | 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
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
In the 1520s a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus developed a revolutionary theory which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre of our universe. The secret existence of this manuscript tantalised scientists everywhere in Europe. Then in 1539 a young German mathematician, Rheticus, travelled t ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Anyone alive in the eighteenth 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 ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | 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
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
In the tercentenary year of the Longitude Act, Fourth Estate present an anniversary edition of Dana Sobel's bestselling history of an epic scientific quest and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With an introduction by Neil Armstrong. Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the l ...Show more
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
#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 Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science Before they even had the righ ...Show more
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