- Galilei, galileo, 1564-1642, Astronomers, Nuns, biography, Italy, biography
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called “the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science altogether.”Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day.
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- Author
- Dava Sobel
- First published
- November 1, 2000
- Pages
- 420
- Publisher
- Walker Books, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Fourth Estate
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- French, German, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9781857028614
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“The day after his sister Virginia's funeral, the already world-renowned scientist Galileo Galilei received this, the first of 124 surviving letters from the once-voluminous correspondence he carried on with his elder daughter.”
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