To Father : The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633Galilei, Maria Celeste
9780802713438
Galileo's Daughter: A Historic Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Dava Sobel
ISBN 10: 0802713432 / 0-8027-1343-2
ISBN 13: 9780802713438
Publisher: Walker & Co
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780802713438
Publisher: Walker & Co
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
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The author of the bestselling "Longitude" now offers a biography unlike any other on Galileo, focusing on the astronomer's relationship with his daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun, illuminating an era when one man fought to reconcile the heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens revealed through his telescope. 40 illustrations.
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"...showing once again her keen eye for the compelling stories that simmer beneath great discoveries, [Sobel] turns this seemingly meager material into genuine historical drama....The book is most remarkable for its graceful combination of scholarly integrity and rhapsodic tone. Sobel imbues this potentially dry, academic story with the language and cadence of oral storytelling, and she gives it all the dramatic suspense that narrative demands."
Casey Greenfield, Salon, 11/11/1999
Review:"But the real focus and appeal of Ms. Sobel's book is her account of Galileo's own life and career, which allows her to exercise the skills at scientific narrative that she put to such good use in a previous book, LONGITUDE:...Galileo's story has been told many times, but Ms. Sobel's graceful reworking of it makes several important points clearer. For one thing, it is enlightening to learn how much effort Galileo gave to the literary form of his scientific writings, which....For another thing, it is surprising to see how much Galileo equivocates in his expression of those ideas."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, 11/15/1999
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