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==Publications== {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?86908-1/longitude Presentation by Sobel on ''Longitude'', June 17, 1997], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?116077-1/longitude ''Booknotes'' interview with Sobel on ''Longitude'', January 17, 1999], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?154176-1/galileos-daughter Presentation by Sobel on ''Galileo's Daughter'', December 14, 1999], [[C-SPAN]]| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?160597-4/galileos-daughter-historical-memoir Presentation by Sobel on ''Galileo's Daughter'', November 19, 2000], [[C-SPAN]]| video5 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?167891-1/letters-father Presentation by Sobel on ''Letters to Father'', December 7, 2001], [[C-SPAN]]| video6 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?190405-1/the-planets Presentation by Sobel on ''The Planets'', November 15, 2005], [[C-SPAN]]| video7 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?421869-2/dava-sobel-discusses-the-glass-universe Presentation by Sobel on ''The Glass Universe'', January 19, 2017], [[C-SPAN]]}} * {{cite book| title=Arthritis: What Works; Revolutionary Healing Approaches From An Unprecedented Nationwide Survey Of People With Arthritis|url=https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0312927193|date=1992|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-92719-6 }} * {{cite book| title=Arthritis: What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief for the Rest of Your Life, Even After Drugs and Surgery Have Failed|date=2015|publisher=St. Martin's Press|id={{ASIN|1250068681|country=ca}}}} * {{cite book| title=Backache: What Exercises Work|url=https://www.amazon.ca/Backache-Exercises-Sobel-Arthur-Paperback/dp/B00ZT1A1XG|date=1996|publisher=St. Martin's Press}} * ''[[Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time]]'' (1995) {{ISBN|1-85702-571-7}}. {{OCLC|909490210}} β the genius in question was [[John Harrison]], who spent decades trying to convince the [[British Admiralty]] of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining [[longitude]] when at sea in order to win the [[longitude prize]]. The book itself won the 1997 [[British Book of the Year]] award. * ''[[Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love]]'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-14-028055-3}} * ''The Best American Science Writing'' 2004 (editor) {{ISBN|9780060726409}}, {{OCLC|916515131}} * ''The Planets: A discourse on the discovery, science, history and mythology, of the planets in our solar system, with one chapter devoted to each of the celestial spheres.'' (2005) {{ISBN|1-85702-850-3}}, {{OCLC|77646686}}<ref>{{cite news|author=Moore, Patrick|author-link=Patrick Moore|title=Review: ''The Planets'' by Dava Sobel|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 September 2005|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/03/featuresreviews.guardianreview4}}</ref> * {{cite book| title=A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wsqz6TPw9gC|date=4 October 2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-8027-7893-2}} {{OCLC|819387028}}<ref>{{cite news|author=Brown, Helen|title=Review: ''A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos'' by Dava Sobel|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=11 October 2011|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8811156/A-More-Perfect-Heaven-How-Copernicus-Revolutionised-the-Cosmos-by-Dava-Sobel-review.html}}</ref> * ''The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars'' (2016) {{ISBN|9780143111344}}, {{OCLC|972263666}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/315726/the-glass-universe-by-dava-sobel/9780670016952/|title=''The Glass Universe'' by Dava Sobel|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com}}</ref> * ''The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science'' (2024) {{ISBN|978-0802163820}}, {{OCLC|1437997660}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-elements-of-marie-curie/|title=The Elements of Marie Curie|website=groveantlantic.com}}</ref><ref name="p894">{{cite web |last=Zernike |first=Kate |date=2024-10-10 |title=Book Review: 'The Elements of Marie Curie,' by Dava Sobel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/books/review/dava-sobel-elements-of-marie-curie.html |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Spinney |first=Laura |date=2024-11-11 |title=The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel review β the great scientist who created her own school |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/11/the-elements-of-marie-curie-by-dava-sobel-review-the-great-scientist-who-created-her-own-school |access-date=2024-11-13 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
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