{"product_id":"galileos-daughter-dava-sobel-9780802779656","title":"Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love | Dava Sobel","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by a long fascination with \u003cstrong\u003eGalileo\u003c\/strong\u003e, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter \u003cstrong\u003eMaria Celeste\u003c\/strong\u003e, a cloistered nun, \u003cstrong\u003eDava Sobel \u003c\/strong\u003ehas crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe man\u003cstrong\u003e Albert Einstein\u003c\/strong\u003e called \"the father of modern physics—indeed of modern science altogether.\" It is also a stunning portrait of Galileo's daughter, a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as \"a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between Galileo's grand public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of \u003cstrong\u003ethe Medici's\u003c\/strong\u003e and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was about to be overturned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring that same time, while the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and the Thirty Years' War tipped fortunes across Europe, Galileo sought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with human drama and scientific adventure, \u003ci\u003eGalileo's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e Galileo's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"[Sobel] shows herself a virtuoso at encapsulating the history and the politics of science. Her descriptions of Galileo's ideas...are pithy, vivid, and intelligible.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51555554033979,"sku":"0802779654","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9780802779656.jpg?v=1787400684","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/galileos-daughter-dava-sobel-9780802779656","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}