Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Condition:Well Read "--The New York Times"Deeply moving

"--The New York Times"Deeply moving

avant-garde French playwright) is shuttled around in a Tipoye (a porter-conveyed chair about which he is often wringing his hands with guilt

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Contents:Part I

Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Condition:Well Read "--The New York Times"Deeply movingThe Barnes & Noble ReviewDeemed by Albert Einstein to be "the father of modern physics of modern science altogether," the man who dropped cannonballs from the Tower or Pisa, improved the telescope to discover the moons of Jupiter, and defended Nicolaus Copernicus's theory of the Earth's orbit was, in his day, considered a heretic. Dava Sobel, the author of Longitude, the story of John Harrison's invention of the chronometer, returns with Galileo's