Boban Aleksovski Aleksovski থেকে Nabha, Punjab 147201, India
Galileo's Daughter offers a fresh perspective into Galileo's life and scientific pursuit. Sobel shares a selection of Suor Maria Celeste's letters to her father. Alas, Galileo's responses were destroyed, hence we'll never know their content. At times I found the book slow, filled with the religious layers of Galileo's life. I suppose this is due to my disapproval of religious power-struggle effect on science, but they're important pieces to the story. I really enjoyed revisiting Galileo's paramount contributions to physics and astronomy within the context of his life and times. The last hundred pages, or so, of the book were the most interesting to me, and I must confess I cried at the end. Beyond the science and religion of the book, this is a story of a father and daughter, who possessed brilliant minds, that fought against the religious confines of their times.
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