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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     First Chapter Excerpts     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Sobel, Dava.     Subjects     Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Correspondence.     Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 -- Correspondence.     Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sobel, Dava.       by title:      Galileo's daughter :...         MARC Display

Galileo's daughter : a historical memoir of science, faith, and love / Dava Sobel. by Sobel, Dava. New York : Penguin, 2000, c1999. 2000, c1999. Subjects Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Correspondence.   Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 -- Correspondence.   Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography. Format:  No. of Holds for all sites :  0 Summary:  Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion-the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics-indeed of modern science altogether." It is also a stunning portrait of Galileo's daughter, a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me." Moving between Galileo's grand public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was about to be overturned. During that same time, while the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and the Thirty Years' War tipped fortunes across Europe, Galileo sought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope. Filled with human drama and scientific adventure, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story. Description:  ix, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Madison Library District Non-fiction BIO-GR Sobel, Dava / Galileo's Checked out 07/05/2024 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email Search Results to:

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