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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | 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
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
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
Illustrated Longitude by SOBEL DAVA
$49.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
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
$21.99 NZD
$28.00 (21% off)
Category: Popular 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 Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
#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
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
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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