2.0

This book had an interesting premise (letters written to Galileo from his illegitimate daughter who became a nun) and I thought the scientist-to-nun ratio was exactly opposite of what it should be. I was much more interested in the life of a cloistered nun, but the author has a scientific bent and not a social historian's bent and thus, we disagreed as to what is most interesting. The politics of science and the Catholic church were interesting and many people in book group liked this book, but I was not one of them.