Galileo's daughter : a drama of science, faith and love /
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Cathol...
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| Materialtyp: | Bok |
| Språk: | English |
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London :
Fourth Estate,
1999
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| Sammanfattning: | Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion-the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics-indeed of modern science altogether." It is also a stunning portrait of Galileo's daughter, a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me." |
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| Fysisk beskrivning: | 429 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliography and index |
| ISBN: | 1-85702-712-4 |