by Dava Sobel · Fourth Estate · tapa dura · ISBN 9781857028614
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«Galileo's Daughter» is Dava Sobel's biography of Galileo Galilei and his daughter, published by Fourth Estate in hardcover (448 pages, in English).
Dava Sobel reconstructs the relationship between Galileo Galilei and his daughter Virginia, a nun in a Florence convent under the name of Sister Maria Celeste. Virginia's letters interweave the scientist's life, his discoveries, and the conflict between faith and science that ended before the Inquisition.
Originally published in October 1999, it bears the subtitle 'A Drama of Science, Faith and Love' and includes bibliographic references and an index.
For readers interested in biographies of scientists, history of science, and the link between faith and knowledge.
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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.
