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 |
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 - Correspondence |
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Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 - Correspondence |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography pages 395-402 |
Subject |
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Correspondence.
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Correspondence.
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Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 -- Correspondence.
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Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634 -- Correspondence.
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Galilei, Maria Celeste, 1600-1634.
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Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography.
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Scientists -- Biography.
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Astronomy.
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Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence.
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Biographies.
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Author |
Sobel, Dava.
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LC no. |
00001406 |
ISBN |
1857028619 |
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