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Title: Okay, not fabuous
Review: I find it a little odd that several people have expressed disappointment that the "letter" from Caroline Herschel to Maria Mitchell about the discoveries of Uranus and Neptune in the chapter "Night Airs" was the author's creation. Sobel uses this letter as a means of conveying the info in an interesting manner, much as she communicates from the point of view of the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 a few chapters earlier. Perhaps these same people will be disappointed to learn that the meteorite didn't actually "speak" the words attributed to it in that chapter?I found this to be a quick read, and I had read the entire book cover to cover in about two hours. It's really written at about a sixth-grade level. It might be a good read, especially if you're unfamiliar with astronomy or need a quick refresher. However, in this reader's opinion, Sobel's other two books "Galileo's Daughter" and "Longitude" are much better.
