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Author Sobel, Dava.

Title Galileo's daughter : a drama of science, faith and love / Dava Sobel
Published London : Fourth Estate, 1999

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Description 429 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps. ; 25 cm
Summary Galileo's daughter is the story of two extraordinary personalities, one of them the great seventeenth-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, the other his eldest daughter Virginia, unknown to all but a few
Analysis Astronomers - Italy - Biography
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 - Correspondence
Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 - Correspondence
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography pages 395-402
Subject Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Correspondence.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Correspondence.
Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 -- Correspondence.
Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 -- Correspondence.
Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634.
Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography.
Scientists -- Biography.
Astronomy.
Genre/Form Personal correspondence.
Biographies.
Author Sobel, Dava.
LC no. 00001406
ISBN 1857028619