by Dava Sobel · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780802713438
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«Galileo's Daughter» is the historical biography by Dava Sobel, published by Viking in hardcover (436 pages, in English).
Dava Sobel reconstructs the life of Galileo Galilei from the letters of his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, Suor Maria Celeste, from the convent in Florence. The book alternates the astronomer's scientific work, his telescopic observations and his trial before the Inquisition with the life of Suor Maria Celeste and the role of faith.
The work is based on the 124 surviving letters from Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo Galilei and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999) and the Independent Publisher Book Award (2000).
Readers interested in the history of science and in biographies that portray the relationship between knowledge and faith.
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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.
