Galileo's Daughter
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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
By Dava SobelThis is an account of the relationship between Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Marie Celeste. It contains letters sent from Marie Celeste to her father from a Florence convent.
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
By Dava SobelInspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern ...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
By Dava SobelPresents 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.
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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
By Dava SobelAs a nun, she wrote 120 letters to her father from 1623 to her death from exposure and malnutrition ten years later. This text investigates the father-daughter relationship.
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
By Dava SobelWhile Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years ...