Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel
ISBN: | 9780739322932 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
Published: | 3 May, 2005 |
Format: | Audiobook |
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Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel
Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years under house arrest. Galileo's oldest child was thirteen when he placed her in a convent near him in Flo
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