Galileo's Daughter
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
By: Dava Sobel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1999-10-01
Language: Unknown
Format: BOOK
Pages: 436
ISBN: 9780802713438
About This Book
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