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The Planets
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Dava Sobel |
The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explo… |
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The illustrated longitude
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Dava Sobel,William J. H. Andrewes |
An illustrated version of Dava Sobel's story about how John Harrison invented a clock that kept accurate time at sea, thereby creating a way to measure the longitude of ships. |
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Longitude
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Dava Sobel |
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 … |
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