Galileo's daughter
Subtitle: a historical memoir of science, faith, and love
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Penguin
Published: October 31, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780140280555
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.