Book
Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel
- Published
- 1999
- Genre
- Biography
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Pages
- 420
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18646.Galileo_s_Daughter?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_18
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1530L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 13–16
- Ambleside year
- Year 8 onwards · ages 13–16
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Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics--indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me."
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780007635757
- ISBN-10
- 0007635753
Tags
BiographyCatholicismGalileoInquisitionNonfictionScienceScience-AstronomyScience-MathematicsScience-Physics