Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
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ISBN: 0140280553 / Publisher: Penguin Books, November 2000
The tender, inspiring relationship between Galileo and his daughter, a nun, is revealed through letters written between the two. Reprint.
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Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
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