by Dava Sobel · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140280555
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«Galileo's Daughter» is the historical biography by Dava Sobel, published by Penguin in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Based on the letters that Galileo's daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, wrote to her father from a convent in Florence, this book reconstructs the life of the astronomer and his relationship with his daughter. It alternates Galileo's public career, his discoveries with the telescope and his condemnation for heresy with the cloistered world of the nun, in the Italy of the Medici and the papal court.
The book was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999) and the Independent Publisher Book Award (2000).
Recommended for readers interested in the history of science, Renaissance Italy and biographies with a human background.
Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers.
