Dava Sobel is the bestselling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, co-author of The Illustrated Longitude, and editor of Letters to Father. She lives in East Hampton, New York.
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Dava Sobel
A former New York Times science reporter, and the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and Letters to Father.