Galileo's Daughter

Galileo's Daughter
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9780802777478
ISBN-13 : 0802777473
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Galileo's Daughter by : Dava Sobel

Download or read book Galileo's Daughter written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me." Galileo's Daughter dramatically recolors the personality and 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 about to be 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 Dava Sobel's previous book Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story

Galileo's Daughter

Galileo's Daughter
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 9781857027129
ISBN-13 : 1857027124
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Galileo's Daughter by : Dava Sobel

Download or read book Galileo's Daughter written by Dava Sobel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the relationship between Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Marie Celeste. It contains letters sent from Marie Celeste to her father from a Florence convent.

GALILEO'S DAUGHTER: A HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF SCIENCE, FAITH, AND LOVE.

GALILEO'S DAUGHTER: A HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF SCIENCE, FAITH, AND LOVE.
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1431979012
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Book Synopsis GALILEO'S DAUGHTER: A HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF SCIENCE, FAITH, AND LOVE. by : D. SOBEL

Download or read book GALILEO'S DAUGHTER: A HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF SCIENCE, FAITH, AND LOVE. written by D. SOBEL and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Galileo's Daughter

Galileo's Daughter
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9780802779656
ISBN-13 : 0802779654
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Galileo's Daughter by : Dava Sobel

Download or read book Galileo's Daughter written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.

Galileo's Daughter

Galileo's Daughter
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Publisher : HarperPerennial
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-10 : 1841154946
ISBN-13 : 9781841154947
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Galileo's Daughter by : Dava Sobel

Download or read book Galileo's Daughter written by Dava Sobel and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2000 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo is seen as one of the greatest scientists ever, but little is known of his illegitimate daughter, Virginia. As a nun, she wrote 120 letters to her father from 1623 to her death from exposure and malnutrition ten years later. This text investigates the father-daughter relationship.

Letters to Father

Letters to Father
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9780802713872
ISBN-13 : 0802713874
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Letters to Father by : Maria Galilei

Download or read book Letters to Father written by Maria Galilei and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant collection of letters written by Virginia Galilei, the elder daughter of Galileo, to her father after she was placed in a convent in Florence and took the named Suor Maria Celeste, captures the events of the time and brings to life the tender, inspiring relationship between Galileo and his daughter

Longitude

Longitude
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780802779434
ISBN-13 : 0802779433
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Longitude by : Dava Sobel

Download or read book Longitude written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.