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Galileo's daughter

a historical memoir of science, faith, and love

By Dava Sobel

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Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where ...

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  • Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (abridged) By Dava Sobel

    As astronauts and scientists explore deeper into space and introduce the possibility of landing on Mars, it is easy to forget when man pondered how the earth moved. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the scientist whose discoveries about the heavens caused ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (unabridged) By Dava Sobel

    As astronauts and scientists explore deeper into space and introduce the possibility of landing on Mars, it is easy to forget when man pondered how the earth moved. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the scientist whose discoveries about the heavens caused ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • scientific yet poetic

    very vividly reconstructed history of the life of the father of modern science

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