by Dava Sobel · Fourth Estate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857027129
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«Galileo's Daughter» is the historical biography written by Dava Sobel, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (429 pages, in English).
The work reconstructs the relationship between Galileo Galilei and his daughter Virginia, a nun in a Florence convent under the name of Sister Maria Celeste. From the letters she sent him, Dava Sobel weaves together the scientist's life with his discoveries, his defense of heliocentrism and his trial before the Inquisition.
The work was published in English in 1999 and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999) and the Independent Publisher Book Award (2000).
For readers of historical biography, history of science and popular science, including those who already know Dava Sobel from «Longitude».
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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.
