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(0)Dava Sobel
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many remarkable young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own. "Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name," writes Dava...
3) The Planets
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
5) Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
Author
Publisher
Walker
Publication Date
1995
Physical Desc
viii, 184 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
7) Longitude
Publisher
New Video Group distributor
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Interweaves two stories: John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer; and naval officer Rupert Gould who, two hundred years later, stumbles across Harrison's forgotten chromometers and devotes himself to restoring Harrison's long-neglected mechanical masterpieces.