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Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love / Dava Sobel. - New York : Walker & Company, 1999. - [6], 420 stron : ilustracje, mapy ; 25 cm.

Autor

Sobel, Dava.

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Książki Proza

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

Temat

Galileusz (1564-1642) Galilei, Maria Celeste (1600-1634) Astronomowie Włochy

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Biografia

Dziedzina i ujęcie

Fizyka i astronomia

Index na stronach 399-420.

Dava Sobel, the author of Longitude, the story of John Harrison's invention of the chronometer, returns with Galileo's Daughter, a fascinating biography that gives an intimate look at the life of Galileo through the 124 letters written by his eldest daughter, Virginia, published in translation for the first time from the Italian. Virginia was one of Galileo's three children born out of wedlock. Together with her depressive younger sister, she was placed in the Convent of San Matteo near Galileo's Florence home at the age of 13, where she took the name Suor Maria Celeste, in tribute to her father's work. Galileo recognized in Virginia an "exquisite mind," and she, in turn recognized the depth of her father's faith in Catholicism and proved to be an unwavering source of loyalty, support, comfort, and strength for him when he was brought to trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition in 1633... By turns a moving portrait of the loving relationship between a father and daughter, a riveting chronicle of one of the most intensive battles between scientific truth and religious belief, and a fresh, revelatory biography of one of the most magnificent minds the world has ever known, Galileo's Daughter is a masterful weaving of the lives of the mind, the body, and the soul.

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