Galileo's Daughter
Subtitle: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Publisher: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Published: January 2000
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780606202060
Subjects: Historical - General; Religious; Scientists - General; Biography / Autobiography
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.