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Galileo's Daughter

by Dava Sobel

  • FINISHED
  • Finished October 2017
  • First published 1999

biography history astronomy

Sobel tells the story of Galileo through the letters from his daughter, a nun named Suor Maria Celeste.   The book follows his astronomical work and his trial before the Inquisition.