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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love is a book by Dava Sobel published in 1999. It is based on the surviving letters of Galileo Galilei 's daughter, the nun Suor Maria Celeste , and explores the relationship between Galileo and his daughter.
- Dava Sobel
- 1999
1 de ene. de 2001 · 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.
- (29.5K)
- Paperback
4 de sept. de 2011 · Filled with human drama and scientific adventure, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story. Praise for Galileo's Daughter : " [Sobel] shows herself a virtuoso at encapsulating the history and the politics of science.
- Dava Sobel
- $10.99
- Bloomsbury USA
The voices of Galileo and his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, echo down the centuries through letters and writings, which Sobel masterfully weaves into her narrative, building toward the crescendo of history's most dramatic collision between science and religion.
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In “Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love,” Dava Sobel presents readers with a compelling and intricately researched narrative that intertwines the remarkable lives of Galileo Galilei, the revolutionary scientist, and his devoted daughter, Sister Maria Celeste.
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. $268.41. (805) Disponible. Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen. Número de páginas. 432 páginas. Idioma. Inglés. Editorial.
26 de may. de 2009 · In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly ...
