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Galileo's Daughter, A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by Dava Sobel
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2000
- PAPER
- 448 PAGES
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Dava Sobel evokes the daily life and mindset of 17th-century Italy in this engaging tale, which draws on the surviving letters to Galileo from his illegitimate daughter, a nun in a Franciscan convent in San Matteo near Florence. Sobel, author of the acclaimed "Longitude," is a master storyteller.
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