03237cam a2200373 4500 545302348 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802777478 0802777473 B002VQ7PWW Amazon 893c23df-b046-4957-83e5-b8946ddb88e1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 456895 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Sobel, Dava. Galileo's Daughter [Libby eBook] : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 17MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/893/C23/DF/GalileosDaughter9780802777478.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=893C23DF-B046-4957-83E5-B8946DDB88E1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/893/C23/DF/GalileosDaughter9780802777478.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=893C23DF-B046-4957-83E5-B8946DDB88E1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/893/C23/DF/GalileosDaughter9780802777478.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=893C23DF-B046-4957-83E5-B8946DDB88E1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)