Ebook {Epub PDF} The Planets by Dava Sobel

Even before the publication of Longitude twenty-five years ago, I learned about a group of women who worked at the Harvard College Observatory in the nineteenth century, analyzing images of the stars to fantastic effect.. These ladies of “Pickering’s harem” aroused my curiosity, but I put them off while pursuing Galileo’s Daughter, exploring The Planets, and turning Copernicus’s idea.  · Beginning with the Big Bang and the Sun in Genesis, Sobel presents the nine planets in turn Each selection begins with a different point of view. In Sci-Fi, an ancient meteorite talks of the formation and physical nature of Mars; it is followed by an imaginative discussion of the colonization of the planet, including the views of science-fiction writersEstimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Sobel explores the origins and oddities of the planets through the lens of po. With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious topic to date-the planets of our solar system/5.

The Planets by Dava Sobel. In its entirety, however, the chapters bounce around from Sobel's fetish for planets to a chapter on Genesis that includes the Big Bang theory, then mythology, then how to figure out earth's geography using the center of the universe, to Galileo and astronomy, to Gulstav Holst's Opus 32, The Planet's Suite. The book celebrates Earth and her nearest neighbors at this unique moment in history, when the old familiar solar family yields to a new definition of the word planet, and thousands of recently discovered exoplanets orbiting stars beyond the Sun hold out the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life. I wish I had given this book a title. The Planets (Hardcover) Published October 11th by Viking Books. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Dava Sobel. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English.

Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude (Walker and , Penguin ), Galileo's Daughter (Walker and , Penguin ), The Planets (Viking , Penguin ), A More Perfect Heaven (Walker / Bloomsbury and ), And the Sun Stood Still (Bloomsbury, ) and The Glass Universe (Viking, ). The Planets. by Dava Sobel. (Viking, , $, pages) Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz. Return to Science Shelf Home Page. Note: Except where noted, all materials on this site are the copyrighted property of Alfred B. Bortz. Individuals may print single copies of reviews or columns for their own use. For permission to publish or print multiple copies of any of the materials on this site, please contact the author by e-mail. Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe will be available from Viking in December With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious topic to date-the planets of our solar system.