Galileo's Daughter. A Drama of Science, Faith, and Love

London: Fourth Estate. Hardcover. Galileo's Daughter. A Drama of Science, Faith and Love. Very slightly sunned spine to D/J. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, the man Albert Einstein was to call 'the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether'. Though he never left the Italy of his birth, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. Inspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book that brings Galileo to life as never before. The author illuminates an entire era, when the flamboyant Medici Grand Dukes became Galileo's patrons, when the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and prayers was the most effective medicine, when the Thirty Years' War tipped fortunes across Europe, and when one man fought, through his trial and betrayal by his former friend Pope Urban VIII, to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens re revealed through his telescope, this book is an unforgettable story. Illustrated. 429 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Impression. 1999.