Galileo's Daughter
Subtitle: a historical memoir of science, faith, and love
Publisher: Walker & Co
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780670878048
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.