Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

Dava Sobel

420 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science adventurous slow-paced
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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.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the ...

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