To Father - The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633

Galileo Galilei was at the heart of the most dramatic collision in history between science and religion. But the great Italian scientist was also a loving father who treasured his illegitimate daughter, Virginia. She was perhaps her father''s equal in brilliance, industry and sensibility, and became his greatest source of strength during his most difficult years. Now readers can follow their story, as she told it, in this beautiful volume of her surviving 124 letters to Galileo. Both in their original Italian and translated into English by the author of Galileo''s Daughter, these entrancing letters still speak in the present tense, suspended in the urgency of their once current affairs.

About the author

Dava Sobel is the internationally renowned author of ‘Longitude’ and ‘Galileo’s Daughter’. She is also an award-winning former science reporter for the ‘New York Times’ and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including the ‘New Yorker’, ‘Audubon’, ‘Discover’, ‘Life’ and ‘Omni’. She is currently writing a book called ‘The Planets’ for Fourth Estate. She lives in East Hampton, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Dava Sobel
• Assisted by: Dava Sobel (Editor), Sobel Dava (Editor)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780007291335
• ISBN: 978-0-00-729133-5
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1600 To C 1700, Galileo;Telescope;Italy