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Longitude by Dava Sobel
35.00 AUD
Category: Science
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. 'Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy - no mean feat' New Scientist Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
22.99 AUD
Category: Science
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
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: Biography
#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
9.99 AUD
24.99 (60% off)
Category: Science
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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