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 Galileo's Daughter, A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Dava Sobel BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2000 • PAPER • 448 PAGES  E-mail this page  Printer-friendly version
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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