Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947 in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American writer .
Life
Sobel attended the Bronx High School of Science and graduated from Binghamton University . She works as a science editor for the New York Times and is known in Europe for her popular science books. She has published numerous articles in magazines such as Harvard Magazine , Life and The New Yorker . Dava Sobel lives in New York City.
Galileo's daughter describes the relationship between Galileo Galilei and his daughter Celeste, who lived in a monastery. The surviving letters from father and daughter document the contradictions between science and religion. For this book she was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize .
Longitude describes the story of the watchmaker John Harrison (1693–1776), who had set himself the goal of constructing a watch that was sufficiently accurate at sea. Although he succeeded in revolutionizing the determination of length at sea and thereby solving the problem of length , as a non-scientist he had to fight for a long time to be awarded the Academy Prize. The book was filmed for television in 1999 with Michael Gambon and Jeremy Irons .
Sobel's third book, The Planets , pays homage to the bodies of the solar system , their great diversity and their respective mythology. Poetic aspects such as beauty, music of the spheres or genesis are interwoven with little-known physical and historical facts, mixed with autobiographical elements and the experience of early space travel .
The asteroid (30935) Davasobel was named after the writer in 2005.
Works
- Galileo's Daughter, A History of Science, the Stars and Love (Orig. 1999 udT Galileo's Daughter. A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love) German Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-442-72296-9 .
- Longitude . The true story of a lonely genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time. 1st edition. Bloomsbury Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8333-0271-8 (English: Longitude . Translated by Matthias Fienbork).
- The Planets (English 2005, German 2005 published by Berlin Verlag, paperback edition July 2007 published by Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag; with a recent epilogue on the downgrading of Pluto to a dwarf planet). ISBN 3-8270-0267-2 .
- And the sun stood still: how Copernicus revolutionized our worldview . Berlin Verlag 2012. ISBN 3-8270-0894-8 .
- The glass universe: how women discovered the stars . Berlin Verlag 2017. ISBN 3827012147 .
- Signals from other worlds: The scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence . (with Frank Drake ). Rittersdorf, Essen 1994, ISBN 3-88498-065-3 .
literature
- Felix Lühning: Longitude. Critical consideration of a bestseller. In: Contributions to the history of astronomy. Volume 10. Frankfurt a. M. 2010, pp. 104-186.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dava Sobel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Dava Sobel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Dava Sobel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dava Sobel's website
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sobel, Dava |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and science editor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |