Dava Sobel

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The Planets

Dava Sobel

Explores the creation and evolution of the solar system's planets through a lens of popular culture, drawing on sources from astrology, science fiction, the fine arts, and other genres to chronicle planetary history in an accessible f...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

Galileo's Daughter

Dava Sobel

Galileo's daughter, born of his long illicit liaison with the beautiful Marina Gamba of Venice, entered in the summer heat of a new century, on August 13, 1600--the same year the Dominican friar Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2005

Galileo's Daughter

Dava Sobel

The author of the bestselling 'Longitude' now offers a biography unlike any other on Galileo, focusing on the astronomer's relationship with his daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun, illuminating an era when one man fought to reconcil...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 1999
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