Dava Sobel

“Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork. Dava Sobel”

“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”

“Magellan’s sudden identification of millions of land forms fomented a crisis in nomenclature. The International Astronomical Union responded with an all-female naming scheme that evoked a goddess or giantess from every heritage and era, along with heroines real or invented. Thus the Venusian highlan...”