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John Harrison, ein schottischer Uhrmacher, setzt sich Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts ein ehrgeiziges und unmöglich erscheinendes Ziel: eine Methode zu ersinnen, die es Seeleuten erlaubt, den genauen Längengrad ihrer Position auf See zu bestimmen. Über vierzig Jahre arbeitet Harrison wie besessen an der Herstellung eines perfekten Chronometers. Schließlich erlebt er - trotz Missgunst und zahlreicher Anfeindungen - einen beispiellosen Triumph.

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Dava Sobel erzählt die Geschichte der berühmtesten Frau der Wissenschaft - und die der Frauen, die in ihrem Labor ausgebildet wurden. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes übernahm Marie Curie seine Professur an der Sorbonne, zog zwei Töchter groß, brachte im Ersten Weltkrieg ein Röntgengerät an die Front und inspirierte Generationen von Frauen, Wissenschaft als Lebensweg zu wählen.

Frauen in der Wissenschaft

Sobel nähert sich der zweifachen Nobelpreisträgerin aus einem neuen Blickwinkel. Sie erzählt von den Frauen, die ihr Vermächtnis fortführten. Das...

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever...

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. Sobel explores the origins and oddities of the planets through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history....

Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science Friday

Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or...

Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion-the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics-indeed of modern science altogether." It is also a stunning portrait of Galileo's daughter, a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman...