Probably the most complete and believable account of Copernicus' approach to his science how it weaved around the arc of his life and his role as a Canon of the church. The particulars of his astronomy are well-documented in other places, and Sobel treats them here with that in mind, including su...
Longitude from Dava Sobel is a fascinating account of how a virtually unknown watchmaker named John Harrison conquered one of the oldest and thorniest problems surrounding the ocean voyages - the problem of accurately measuring longitude -, which stumped even the best of scientific minds for cent...
პლანეტები და ასტრონომია ჩემი ვნებაა, კოხტა წიგნები პლანეტებზე მითუმეტეს. ერთი სიამოვნებაა ხარისხიან ფურცელზე დაბეჭდილ, კარგად დაკაბადონებულ, ლამაზად გაფორმებულ წიგნს რომ გადაშლი პლანეტების შესახებ. მეორე სიამოვნება კი თავად თხრობამ უნდა მოგგვაროს. ამ წიგნმა პირველი სიამოვნება მომანიჭა, აი მეორე კ...
The latter is the best of the three, that of 1566 only a reprint of the editio princeps of 1543. There is only one difference: that of 1543 has an ample errata … which disappears in 1566 without any of the errors being corrected. This is all corrected in 1617 and moreover the text has been rectif...
Imaginary Lines When I’m playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. —MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi Once on a Wednesday excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball ...
Ever a source of love and financial aid to Suor Maria Celeste, as well as the grateful recipient of her labors, he now began to do favors for her that required the skilled work of his own hands. And she, emboldened either by her recent assistance on the manuscript for the Dialogue or by the matur...