Dava Sobel Quotes
Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
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Birth: | 15th June, 1947 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Writer |
Dava Sobel is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. Longitude was dramatised for television by Charles Sturridge and Granada Film in 1999, and was shown in the United States by A&E. Michael Gambon played John Harrison, and Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, who restored Harrison's timepieces for posterity in the mid-20th century.
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