Videos

Dava Sobel talked about her book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, about women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory, stu…

Panelists talked about the history of women in the sciences. Panelists included Nathalia Holt, author of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Ma…

Dava Sobel talked about her book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. She was interviewed while at the Texas Book Festival. The program included schedule informat…

Dava Sobel talked about her book The Planets, published by Viking. She told how she came to write the book and develop its structure. She read portions of her book about Venus, the Moon, Mar…

Authors participated in a panel discussion on natural disasters. Ms. Sobel spoke about the solar system and the possible finding of a 10th planet. Professor Emanuel discussed the formation o…

Ms. Sobel talked about her book, Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Faith, Science and Love, published by Walker and Company. She talked about the story of the famed scientist’s rela…

Moderated by Mr. Flatow, award-winning writers talked about their writing experiences and the difficulties associated with science as subject matter. Sobel is the author of Longitude and oth…

Author Dava Sobel discussed her book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. She described the life of John Harrison who disco…