Galileo's Daughter: A Historic Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

Galileo's Daughter: A Historic Memoir of Science, Faith and Love image
ISBN-10:

0375409408

ISBN-13:

9780375409400

Author(s): SOBEL, DAVA.
Edition: Unabridged
Released: Nov 02, 1999
Format: Audio Cassette, 0 pages
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Description:

Read by George Guidall
Seven Cassettes, 11 Hours

Galileo's Daughter introduces us to the man whose belief that the Earth moved around the sun caused him to be brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and threatened with torture. In contrast, his daughter Virginia chose the quiet life of a cloistered nun. Sobel takes us through the trials and triumphs of Galileo's career and his familial relationships, and simultaneously illuminates an entire era of flamboyant Medici Grand Dukes, the bubonic plague, and history's most dramatic collusion between science and religion.

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