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Oct 04, 2005 | 313 Minutes Buy
May 03, 2005 | 649 Minutes Buy
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Oct 04, 2005 | ISBN 9780739322925
313 Minutes
May 03, 2005 | ISBN 9780739322932
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Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years under house arrest. Galileo’s oldest child was thirteen when he placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father’s greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father’s life now as it did then. GALILEO’S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo’s public life and Maria Celeste’s sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity’s perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, GALILEO’S DAUGHTER is an unforgettable story.
Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and Letters to Father. In her thirty years as a science journalist, she has written for many magazines, and coauthored six books, including Is… More about Dava Sobel
“Sobel is a master storyteller…she brings a great scientist to life.”—The New York Times Book Review.
“Innovative history and a wonderfully told tale.”—Newsweek.
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