Galileo's Daughter
Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years under house arrest.
Galileo's oldest child was thirteen when he placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then.
GALILEO'S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER is an unforgettable story.
English edition · First published 1999 by Random House Audio · ISBN 9780739322901
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Editions
23 editions
English
- Galileo's Daughter · Random House Audio · 2005 · ISBN 9780739322901 This page
- Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love · HarperCollins Publishers · 2011 · ISBN 9780007382019
- Galileo's Daughter · Random House Audio · 2005 · ISBN 9780739322918
- Galileo's Daughter (Lib)(CD) · Books on Tape · 2003 · ISBN 9780736694537
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love · G.K. Hall · 2000 · ISBN 9780754014133
- Galileo's Daughter. · PENGUIN Group (USA) Incorporated · 2000 · ISBN 9780140296983
- Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love · 4th Estate · 2000 · ISBN 9781841154947
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love · Demco Media · 2000 · ISBN 9780606202060
- Galileo's Daughter: Complete & Unabridged: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love · Chivers Audio Books · 2000 · ISBN 9780754005704
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love · G.K. Hall · 2000 · ISBN 9780783889542
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love · San Val · 2000 · ISBN 9781417703890
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love · Walker & Co · 1999 · ISBN 9780802713438
- Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love · Random House Audio · 1999 · ISBN 9780375409387
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historic Memoir of Science, Faith and Love · Random House Audio · 1999 · ISBN 9780375409400
- Galileo's Daughter · Walker & Company · 1999 · ISBN 9780802799661
- Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love · Fourth Estate · 1999 · ISBN 9781857028614
- Galileo's Daughter · Penguin · 1999 · ISBN 9780802799647
- Galileo's Daughter : A Drama of Science, Faith and Love · Books on Tape · 1999 · ISBN 9780001056121
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith & Love · Random House Audio Publishing · 1999 · ISBN 9780736648011
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historic Memoir of Science, Faith and Love · Random House · 1999 · ISBN 9780375409394
- Galileo's Daughter - A Historical Memoir Of Science, Faith, And Love · Walker And Company · 1999 · ISBN 9780965032155
- Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love · Walker & Co · 1999 · ISBN 9780802777478
- Galileo's Daughter · ISBN 9780802799753
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