A brilliantly written biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) tells not only about the discoveries of the great Polish scientist, but also about the tur...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with the captivating, little-known true story of a group of women whose remarkable contributions t...

With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compe...

Inspired by long fascination with Galileo and the surviving letters of his daughter, a cloistered nun, Sobel has written a biography of the one Einstein c...

Since our school years, we have known the names of three scientists who were once mercilessly persecuted by the insidious Inquisition. Inventor of the helioc...

Due to the problem of determining geographical coordinates, long-distance voyages remained an extremely risky undertaking for centuries. The best minds of th...

In the mid-19th century, the Harvard Observatory began hiring women as calculators to interpret the results of nightly astronomical observations performed by...

A brilliantly written biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) tells not only about the discoveries of the great Polish scientist, but also about the tur...

Since our school years, we have known the names of three scientists who were once mercilessly persecuted by the insidious Inquisition. Inventor of the helioc...

Due to the problem of determining geographical coordinates, long-distance voyages remained an extremely risky undertaking for centuries. The best minds of th...

In the mid-19th century, the Harvard Observatory began hiring women as calculators to interpret the results of nightly astronomical observations performed by...