Galileo's Daughter
Subtitle: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Windsor Selection)
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Chivers
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 571
ISBN-13: 9780754014133
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; Modern fiction; Italy; History: World; Biography; Astronomers; Large type books; Nuns
First sentence: The day after his sister Virginia's funeral, the already world-renowned scientist Galileo Galilei received this, the first of 124 surviving letters from the once-voluminous correspondence he carried on with his elder daughter.