The Glass Universe von Sobel, Dava

Es war die Zeit, in der Edison mit seiner elektrischen Glühbirne für Aufsehen sorgte, als Frauen an der amerikanischen Ostküste erstmals die Gestirne erkundeten. Ein Professor der Harvard University engagierte sie Anfang der 1880er-Jahre...

A captivating title about the little-known true tales of women in science. Sobel shines an important light on those who changed the burgeoning field of astronomy and our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe. von...

Tenth anniversary edition of the bestseller. Dramatic human story of the epic scientific quest for a method to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd,...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomyA New York Times Book Review Notable BookNamed one of the best books of the year by...

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...