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Astronomers Italy Biography Astronomy Chronometers History Clock and watch makers Great Britain Biography Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543 Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 Correspondence Galilei, Maria Celeste 1600-1634 Correspondence Harrison, John 1693-1776 Harvard College Observatory. Solar systemSobel, Dava.
Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBSobel, Dava.
Summary: The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.2 SOBSobel, Dava.
Summary: Recounts John Harrison's invention of the marine chronometer in eighteenth-century England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 526.62 SOBSobel, Dava.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GALILEI, GALILEO SOBSobel, Dava.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, JOHN SOBSobel, Dava
Summary: The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 SOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 522 SOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space SobelSobel, Dava.
Summary: Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld SobelSobel, Dava.
Summary: Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.9 SOBSummary: Dramatization of Galileo Galilei's life, including his scientific achievements and his defense of his controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Also includes how letters from his illegitimate daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, have shed new light on Galileo's discoveries and his trial for heresy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GALGalilei, Maria Celeste
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2001