by Dava Sobel · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670034468
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«The Planets» is Dava Sobel's popular science essay, published by Viking in hardback (288 pages, in English).
The author explores the origin and singularities of each planet in the solar system, combining science and popular culture: mythology, astrology, science fiction, art, music, poetry, biography, and history. Each chapter presents a world as both familiar and alien, with historical anecdotes and up-to-date astronomical data.
The first hardback edition was published on 11 October 2005.
For a general adult audience interested in astronomy, history of science, and cultural popularisation.
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Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers.
