He Had Made the Earth a Planet and Set It Spinning
With a wave of his hand,
he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
Dava Sobel
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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.