Astronomers - Italy
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Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
$19.99 Add to cartInspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the
- Author: Sobel, Dava
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0802779654
- Language: English
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Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
$16.00 Add to cartThe fascinating letters of Galileo’s eldest daughter to her father
Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo’s eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava So- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Maria Celeste, Suor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437158
- Language: English
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Who Was Galileo?
$5.99 Add to cartLike Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name–a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo cont… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Demuth, Patricia Brennan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 5, 2015
- ISBN10: 0448479850
- Language: English
