Galileo's Daughter

Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo''s daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo''s Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as...