~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology - 1999, and the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for History - 2000
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
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.
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 "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me."