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	Author Dava Sobel to visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995, Penguin 1996) and Galileo's Daughter (Walker 1999, Penguin 2000).
		Sobel to speak at The Smithsonian Institution, The Explorers' Club, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The New York Public Library, The Hayden Planetarium, and The Royal Geographical Society (London).
		Sobel attended Antioch College and the City College of New York before receiving her bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
	www.physics.unc.edu /about/news/sobel.html (527 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| Galileo's Battle for the Heavens \| PBS
		DAVA SOBEL: The birth records in Padua say that she was "born of fornication," because Galileo was not married to her mother.
		DAVA SOBEL: Although their lives were difficult, many of the intelligent young women actually chose the convent because they knew that would be the place they could think and write.
		DAVA SOBEL: It was only when he got home, as he reports later in letters to colleagues, that he, he found her so weakened that she actually succumbed to a, a fairly common illness that need not have been fatal, but in her state proved to be fatal.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2912_galileo.html (12635 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
		Dava Sobel has had a lifelong fascination with Galileo and her latest book, Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, brings the famous scientist vividly to life while offering a unique perspective on his trial for heresy and subsequent years under house arrest.
		Sobel skillfully renders the horrors of the bubonic plague as it swept through Italy, the toll of the Thirty Years War, the difficulties of travel and communication between cities in Italy, as well as the flamboyant ways of the Medicis, who were Galileos patrons.
		Sobel is a master storyteller....What she has done, with her choice of excerpts and her strong sense of story, is bring a great scientist to life.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/galileos_daughter1.asp (904 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
		Sobel has maintained an interest in Galileo since her youth and Galileos Daughter fulfills her ambition to plumb the renaissance scientists life and times, and her recent desire to learn more about Galileo's relationship with his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Poor Clare nun.
		Sobel is the recipient of a 2000 Christopher Award for Galileo's Daughter, and her best-selling book Longitude won several awards, including the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Book of the Year in England.
		Sobel to speak at The Smithsonian Institution, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Los Angeles Public Library, and The New York Public Library.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/galileos_daughter2.asp (275 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Dava Sobel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dava Sobel: The most interesting factual revelation for me was realizing just how massive the sun is in relation to the rest of the solar system.
		Sobel: It got boosted along by traveling near the other giant planets, and the planets were aligned in such a way that it could happen.
		Sobel: I don't have the temperament to be a scientist.
	www.powells.com /authors/sobel.html (3498 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Planets' explores myth, fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sobel's essays are mostly personal ones, a turn from the journalistic perch of her previous best sellers Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time and Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love.
		The opening of the chapter on the moon (not a planet but the leftovers of one), for example, is a short soliloquy that likens one of her friends to a moon goddess.
		Sobel mentions at both the book's outset and conclusion that planetary science is enjoying a boom.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-10-19-sobel-planets_x.htm?POE=TECISVA (397 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: The Planets by Dava Sobel
		And Sobel certainly relishes her subject, producing a series of tight little essays on the Sun, its planets, and the Moon.
		Sobel also adopts some truly dotty literary devices: posing in one chapter as Caroline Herschel, the astronomer's sister; while in the section on Mars, she pretends to be a small lump of rock.
		Sobel may believe she is helping us to understand the cosmos.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1572561,00.html (393 words)

	Dava Sobel -- Available Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dava Sobel is the acclaimed author of the national and international bestseller, Longitude.
		Sobel is an award-winning former science writer for The New York Times, and has contributed articles on astronomy to Audubon, Discover, Life and other national magazines.
		Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly...
	www.non.com /books/Sobel_Dava_ca.html (1039 words)

	News Release
		Dava Sobel, author of Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love, will lecture at Loyola College in Maryland on Tuesday, September 27, to complete this year’s Common Text Program.
		Sobel is an award-winning writer and former New York Times science reporter who has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker.
		Sobel received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
	www.loyola.edu /newsroom/releases/releaselist/050609.html (219 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sobel makes her own position plain by including a chapter on Uranus and Neptune which largely consists of a fictional imagined letter from one female astronomer, Caroline Herschel, to another, Maria Mitchell.
		Sobel's strengths, as you might expect, lie in the realms of biographical and historical anecdote and the re-telling of mythology - although I do think it a little twee to say merely that the God Zeus "beguiled" the princess Europa.
		Sobel comes across as a kind of New Age tree-hugger, probably an enthusiastic fan of what she thinks Jim Lovelock means by the Gaia hypothesis, who has had friendly conversations with several astronomers.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article311387.ece (548 words)

	Bookslut \| Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
		Dava Sobel explores the life and times of Galileo Galilei in her partly epistolary, partly historic book Galileo's Daughter.
		Sobel translated them and has included many of them as context and the most interesting part of the text.
		Sobel's intricate research and deft reconstruction are a benefit to any reader who wants more than the dry details of heresy and a trial.
	www.bookslut.com /nonfiction/2003_10_000748.php (834 words)

	Review of The Planets by Dava Sobel
		Most reviews tell readers about what a book is. But because Dava Sobel's new book The Planets is such a great departure from her previous best-sellers, this review begins with a discussion of what it is not.
		Sobel goes on to describe her attempt to create a model of the Solar System, a "crude diorama, produced with a complete lack of artistic skill," including neither Sun nor Moon but nevertheless capturing the family of bodies that make up our neighborhood in space.
		That, combined with Sobel's stories of a school planet play and a class trip to the Hayden Planetarium, announces to her audience that this book is her history--and theirs.
	www.fredbortz.com /review/PlanetsbySobel.htm (1198 words)

	Dava Sobel: Matters of Science and Faith - 10/4/1999 - Publishers Weekly
		In her research for that book, Sobel visited a clock museum in Pennsylvania where, looking through an Italian book, Silvio Bedini's The Prince of Time, she found a letter from "this nun who was Galileo's daughter" to the astronomer, describing her efforts to fix a convent clock.
		Intrigued, and inspired by further references to the appropriately named Sister Maria Celeste in James Reston Jr.'s Galileo biography, Sobel began to work on a book that would in effect be a study of the relationship of the celebrated astronomer to the precious daughter who lived such a quiet life and predeceased her famous father.
		Sobel tried at first to construct the book around the letters, which she used extensively, with exposition in between.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA167395.html?pubdate=10/4/1999&display=archive (1525 words)

	"Longitude" author Dava Sobel lecture set
		Sobel’s talk is titled "Moons and Measures: How Explorers Found Their Way." Her lecture is presented by Lewis & Clark College at the Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts (1111 S.W. Broadway).
		Sobel is an award-winning writer and former New York Times science reporter who has contributed articles to the New Yorker, Audubon, Discover and Life magazines.
		Sobel will deliver a keynote address at Lewis & Clark College’s symposium commemorating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and take part in a panel discussion about issues of the Age of Enlightenment.
	www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1063908000.3 (426 words)

	Salon Books \| "Galileo's Daughter" by Dava Sobel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It's built on Sobel's translation (the first into English) of 124 letters written to Galileo Galilei, the Renaissance Italian philosopher, mathematician and physicist, by his illegitimate daughter Virginia.
		But Sobel, author of the 1995 bestseller "Longitude," showing once again her keen eye for the compelling stories that simmer beneath great discoveries, turns this seemingly meager material into genuine historical drama.
		Sobel imbues this potentially dry, academic story with the language and cadence of oral storytelling, and she gives it all the dramatic suspense that narrative demands.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/11/11/sobel (538 words)

	Letters to Father Translated and annotated by Dava Sobel, Book Review in America, the Catholic magazine with book ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dava Sobel’s 1999 bestseller, Galileo’s Daughter, made the 17th-century cloistered nun Virginia Galilei (in religion, Suor Maria Celeste of the Franciscan order of Poor Clares) into a worldwide celebrity.
		Sobel’s new work is a handsomely designed, discretely annotated, bilingual edition of the complete set of the surviving 124 letters written by Maria Celeste to her father between 1623 and her death 10 years later at the age of 23.
		I marvel at the skill with which Sobel, who has spent her life as a science writer, not a scholar of pre-modern Italian prose, has succeeded in producing such an accurate and highly readable rendition of the often convoluted and highly colloquial original.
	www.americamagazine.org /BookReview.cfm?textID=1831&articletypeid=31&issueID=371 (868 words)

	Powell's Books - The Planets by Dava Sobel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With her blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to garner rave reviews and attract readers from across the literary spectrum.
		An essay that begins with the story of Sobel's grandmother coming to the United States as an immigrant, for example, sets up the author's musings on the odd nature of Pluto as somewhere in between 'planet' and 'other.' This resonant and eclectic collection — informative, entertaining and poetic — is a joy to read.
		"Sobel's enthusiasm for her subject is absolute, and she succeeds in transmitting it to the reader....
	www.powells.com /biblio/0670034460 (722 words)

	Dava Sobel
		The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in The Planets, a personal account of the lives of other worlds due to be published on October 11th.
		Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.
		Dava Sobel is an award-winning writer and former New York Times science reporter who has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker.
	events.caltech.edu /events/event-2541.html (175 words)

	Galileo's Daughter - About the Book
		Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from their original Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then.
		Moving between Galileo's grand public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was about to be overturned.
		Dava Sobel is the author of the international best-seller Longitude, and co-author of The Illustrated Longitude.
	www.galileosdaughter.com /book.shtml (385 words)

	WAG: Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter & M. Lee Goff's A Fly for the Prosecution
		In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel revisits one of the more famous of the confrontations between the pioneers of science and the bureaucracies of faith--the trial of Galileo Galilei at the hands of the Roman Catholic Inquisition.
		But Sobel gives the story a compelling new dimension by expanding it to include Galileo's relationship with his own deeply-held faith, and with his illegitimate daughter Virginia, who from the age of thirteen lived out her life in the Franciscan Convent of San Matteo, where she took her vows as Suor Maria Celeste.
		It is with these that Sobel develops our sense of a woman whose physical world was constricted, impoverished and often marked by hunger, cold and exhausting labors--but whose emotional and intellectual breadth were enormous.
	www.thewag.net /books/sobelfly.htm (1330 words)

	Author Dava Sobel honored for public service
		The NSB honored Sobel for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public.
		"Dava Sobel's vivid and engaging writing about discovery and discoverers has brought major events in the history of science to life for a wide audience," says Eamon Kelly, NSB Chairman.
		Sobel has lectured at institutes worldwide, such as the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Royal Geographical Society.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-01/NSF-ADSh-2901101.php (395 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Dava Sobel
		In Longitude, her 1995 book, science writer Dava Sobel recounted the fascinating tale of John Harrison, the 18th-century English inventor who built the first maritime clock capable of measuring longitudinal distances with accuracy.
		For her latest book, Dava Sobel spun a "planet fetish" that began in childhood into a sweeping examination of our solar system that encompasses mythology, astrology and science fiction as well as science.
		The two-hour program is based on the bestseller Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel, and employs a thorough approach to the subject.
	news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Dava_Sobel_Book.html (785 words)

	Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love Book by Dava Sobel at Total-Entrepreneur.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Author Dava Sobel has included her own translations of many of the surviving letters which Galileo's illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste wrote to him while she was a cloistered nun.
		Sobel's text is clear and often insightful, although the stories of politcal and religious intrigue, not to mention the plethora of Italian names, occasionally become confusing.
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	www.total-entrepreneur.com /Amazon_Pages/_Galileo%2560s+Daughter%255F+A+Historical+Memoir+of+Science%252C+Faith%252C+and+Love_0140280553_z.asp (1447 words)

	The Planets by Dava Sobel
		Dava Sobel's book Longitude became an international best-seller, and has been translated into more than twenty foreign languages.
		Dava Sobel is the internationally renowned author of âLongitudeâ and âGalileoâs Daughterâ.
		Dava has won a number of awards for her outstanding contribution towards public understanding of science.
	www.lovereading.com /special_sobel (293 words)

	Amazon.com: The Planets: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dava Sobel's newest offering deviates from the historical path of her previous work, but the stellar prose that remains in The Planets will inevitably pull in any who wander too close.
		Sobel is great when she has a good story to work with, a compelling but unsung character struggling within a historical context.
		Dava Sobel has produced another beautifully written and engaging study, this time of her biggest subject yet: the Solar System.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670034460?v=glance (2662 words)

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