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Dava Sobel and
Fritz Weaver (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
October 4, 2005
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Abridged
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739322901
ISBN-10
0739322907
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 6.25 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
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Original list price
$14.99
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audio
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen. Read by Fritz Weaver. Book available.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then.
GALILEO'S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER is an unforgettable story.
Galileo's oldest child was thirteen when he placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then.
GALILEO'S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER is an unforgettable story.
Editions
Hardcover
Largeprint edition from Chivers (June 1, 2000); titled "Galileo''s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"
9780754014133 | details & prices | 571 pages | List price $55.01
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
Large print edition from G K Hall & Co (March 1, 2000); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"
9780783889542 | details & prices | 571 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $30.95
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
Paperback
from Walker & Co (August 30, 2011); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"
9780802779656 | details & prices | 420 pages | 5.50 × 8.10 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $18.00
from Penguin USA (November 1, 2000); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"
9780140280555 | details & prices | 420 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
from Penguin USA (November 1, 2000); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir Of Science, Faith, And Love"
9789990054590 | details & prices | List price $0.02
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Fritz Weaver (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from Random House (October 4, 2005); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"
9780739322901 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.99
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With George Guidall (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Books on Tape (December 1, 1999); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith & Love"
9780736648011 | details & prices | List price $35.95
Reinforced
from Demco Media (February 1, 2002); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"
9780606202060 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $23.84
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
Prebinding
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 2000); titled "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love"
9781417703890 | details & prices | 420 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $28.25
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
About: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
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