Электронная книга: Dava Sobel «Longitude»
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Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947[1]) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. Her works include:
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) - the genius in question was John Harrison, who spent decades trying to convince the British Admiralty of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining longitude when at sea in order to win the longitude prize. ISBN 1-85702-571-7 - The book itself won the 1997 British Book of the Year award.
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (2000) ISBN 0-14-028055-3
- The Best American Science Writing 2004 (editor)
- The Planets: A discourse on the discovery, science, history and mythology, of the planets in our solar system, with one chapter devoted to each of the celestial spheres. (2005) ISBN 1-85702-850-3
- A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos (2011) ISBN 978-0802717931
Longitude was dramatised for television by Charles Sturridge and Granada Film in 1999, and was shown in the US by A&E. Michael Gambon played John Harrison, and Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, who restored Harrison's timepieces for posterity in the mid-20th century.
Sobel made her first foray into teaching at the University of Chicago as the Vare Writer-in-Residence in the winter of 2006. She taught a one-quarter seminar on writing about science.
References
- ^ Sobel, Dava. "Self Portrait". Dava Sobel Author of Longitude. http://www.davasobel.com/about.php. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
External links
- Dava Sobel at the Internet Movie Database
- About the Author: Dava Sobel.
- Book Review: Longitude by Dava Sobel.
- Website of the Author Dava Sobel
- Podcast of Dava Sobel discussing “The Origins of Longitude” at the Shanghai International Literary Festival
- "Longitude forged": an essay exposing a hoax solution to the problem of calculating longitude, undetected in Dava Sobel's Longitude, from TLS, November 12, 2008.
- 1947 births
- Living people
- The Bronx High School of Science alumni
- Binghamton University alumni
- Antioch College alumni
- American science writers
- Guggenheim Fellows
- American non-fiction writer stubs
Источник: Dava Sobel
См. также в других словарях:
longitude — [ lɔ̃ʒityd ] n. f. • 1525; « longueur » 1314; lat. longitudo ♦ L une des coordonnées sphériques d un point de la surface terrestre; distance angulaire de ce point au méridien d origine mesurée en degrés. Île située par 60° de latitude sud et 40°… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Longitude — Lon gi*tude, n. [F., fr. L. longitudo, fr. longus long.] 1. Length; measure or distance along the longest line; distinguished from {breadth} or {thickness}; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense. Sir H. Wotton. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
longitude — Longitude. s. f. Terme d Astronomie & de Geographie. La distance du Couchant au Levant. On compte les degrez de longitude depuis le premier meridien. prendre les longitudes. ce lieu a tant de degrez de longitude, tant de latitude. ce seroit un… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
longitude — [län′jə to͞od΄, län′jətyo͞od΄; lôn′jə to͞od΄, lôn′jə tyo͞od΄] n. [ME < L longitudo < longus, LONG1] 1. length 2. distance east or west on the earth s surface, measured as an arc of the equator (in degrees up to 180° or by the difference in… … English World dictionary
longitude — late 14c., length, from L. longitudo length, duration, from longus (see LONG (Cf. long) (adj.)). For origins, see LATITUDE (Cf. latitude) … Etymology dictionary
longitude — s. f. 1. Distância de um ponto da terra ao meridiano geral. 2. [Figurado] Distância, lonjura … Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
