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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love * Available on CD.

By Dava Sobel (© 1999)
Read by George Guidall
1999 Random House, Inc.
Unabridged
Biography > Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology

A brilliant portrait of the man whose clash with Catholic doctrine divided science and religion.

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In GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, the voices of Galileo and his daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, echo down the centuries through letters and writings which author Dava Sobel masterfully weaves into her narrative, building toward the crescendo of history's most dramatic collision between science and religion. In the process, she illuminates an entire era: when the flamboyant Medici grand dukes became Galileo's patrons; when the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and prayer was the only medicine; when the Thirty Years' War upended fortunes across Europe; and when one man fought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens revealed to him through his telescope.

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