Galileo's Daughter
Subtitle: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: G K Hall & Co
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 571
ISBN-13: 9780783889542
Subjects: Scientists; Large type books; Fiction; Biography / Autobiography; Women; Nuns; Historical; Astronomers; Biography; Italy
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.