Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel is a writer who has focused on "popularizing science" titles. Her works include:
- Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995)
- Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (2000)
To do: include literary criticism of her works. What is the consensus? Is her scholarship accurate? Does she shed new light on, for example, the Galileo controversy?
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WIFE
What hast thou seen?
WILLIAM
What I've/ve.html">ve already told:--
Or else the tree.html">tree 's enchanted I proclaim.
WIFE
ENCHANTED! nonsense; such a sight.html">sight.html">sight to see!
HUSBAND
To know the truth myself, I'll climb the tree,
We may believe what we ourselves discern.
SOON as the master they above descried,
The butler took the lady in his arms,
At sight of this the husband.html">husband gave a yell:
Such liberties he wish'd at once to stop,
How! how!--cried he:--what, e'en before my sight?
That what I've seen 'tis folly to believe.
WIFE
Too much is this:--such accusations grieve.
HUSBAND
Thou did'st most clearly suffer his embrace.
WIFE
MY reason's flown'! or have I lost my eyes?
WIFE
CAN you suppose my character I prize
Before your face, when I might ev'ry day
And (if lik'd such frolicks) take my fill?
HUSBAND
I KNOW not what to think nor what to do;
Let's see again; aloft he went once more,
But now the husband saw the playful squeeze;
To find the cause, said he, no longer try,
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