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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama Of Science, Faith, And Love
by Dava Sobel
This was my review for Kaiwaka Library...
Galileo, as well as being a renowned artist and inventor, was also a family man. One of his daughters, Virginia, was placed in a convent when she was 13 years old - as was normal for a family of their standing at the time. Suor Maria Celeste, as she became, was very intelligent herself, and exchanged letters with her father for many years. Some of those letters have survived to this day.
Sobel uses these letters to frame a biography of the great man and the world going on around him. For all that this sounds like a very dry topic, the book is a surprisingly easy read.
Galileo, as well as being a renowned artist and inventor, was also a family man. One of his daughters, Virginia, was placed in a convent when she was 13 years old - as was normal for a family of their standing at the time. Suor Maria Celeste, as she became, was very intelligent herself, and exchanged letters with her father for many years. Some of those letters have survived to this day.
Sobel uses these letters to frame a biography of the great man and the world going on around him. For all that this sounds like a very dry topic, the book is a surprisingly easy read.