TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sobel,Dava
TI  - Galileo's daughter: a historical memoir of science, faith, and love 
T2  - Penguin book
SN  - 0802713432
AV  - QB36.G2 S73 2000
U1  - 520/.92 21
PY  - 2000///, c1999
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Galilei, Galileo,
KW  - Galilei, Maria Celeste,
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's grand public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was being overturned. In that same time, while the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and the Thirty Years' War tipped fortunes across Europe, one man sought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope.  With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story
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