Also by Dava Sobel

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

And the Sun Stood Still: A Play

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

The Planets

Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623–1633 (translated by Dava Sobel)

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

The Illustrated Longitude (with William J. H. Andrewes)

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time