Galileo's daughter :
Series: Penguin book Published by : Penguin, (New York :) Physical details: ix, 420 p. : ill., geneal. table ; 24 cm. ISBN:0802713432; 0140280553 (pbk.); 0140280553.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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