出版社: Walker & Company
出版年: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 9780802715296
页数: 208
装帧: Paperback
定价: USD 14.00
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First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
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Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is the author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, The Planets, and most recently A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. A former staff science reporter for The New York Times, she has also written for numerous magazines, including Discover, Harvard Magazine, Smithsonian, and The New Yorker.
Her most unforgettable assignmen...
Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is the author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, The Planets, and most recently A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. A former staff science reporter for The New York Times, she has also written for numerous magazines, including Discover, Harvard Magazine, Smithsonian, and The New Yorker.
Her most unforgettable assignment at the Times required her to live 25 days as a research subject in the chronophysiology lab at Montefiore Hospital, where the boarded-up windows and specially trained technicians kept her from knowing whether it was day outside or night.
Her work has won recognition from the National Science Board, which gave her its 2001 Individual Public Service Award "for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public." She also received the 2004 Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in England and the 2008 Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for "increasing the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy."
A 1964 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, she has taught several seminars in science writing at the university level, and looks forward to a two-year residency at Smith College beginning in fall 2013.
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头顶星空,地上功利 作者:盛 洪 读书 2009年第8期 格林尼治皇家观象台是一个漂亮的去处。当我登上横跨本初子午线的山坡时,这里已是一片秋色。举目望去,比邻的海军学院建筑典雅,风景如画。如今,天文观测的功能已经移到别处,皇家观象台成了一个有关天文和航海的博物馆。 ... (展开)本书主要内容+力荐嗷嗷
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本书的重点虽是叙述哈里森发明“精密时计”(即精确走时的航海钟)解决了“经度定位”这一困扰人类航海史上重大问题的故事,但实则是以此事为中心,介绍了人类针对解决经度问题而进行的种种努力以及整个探索过程。 开篇首先介绍了因无法定位经度而造成的几次严重海难及其它数... (展开)> 更多书评 33篇
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