She based her book Galileo’s Daughter on 124 surviving letters to Galileo from his eldest child. She also authored "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love", which was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for or Autobiography. Andrewes, who introduced her to the subject of longitude, Sobel co-authored "The Illustrated Longitude" in 1998.
The story was made into a television movie, of the same name by Charles Sturridge and Granada Film in 1999, and was shown in the United States by A&E. Sobel wrote "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" in 1995. Since 1994 she had been an astronomy columnist for East Hampton Independent in East Hampton, New York, and for The Discovery Channel On-Line since 1996. Then she began her career as a science reporter at New York Times, New York, in 1979 and worked there until 1982.
The Bronx, New York City, New York, United Statesīeginning fresh out of college as a technical writer for IBM, Dava Sobel moved quickly into journalism in January 1970.
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