by Dava Sobel · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429747386
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Galileo's Daughter is a historical chronicle that narrates the life of Galileo Galilei through the letters that his daughter Virginia sent him from a convent. Dava Sobel, fascinated by Galileo's personality, has written this book based on those letters, which reveal the affectionate support that Virginia gave her father, being his main source of strength during his most productive and tumultuous years. These letters, recovered and masterfully woven into the narrative by Sobel, embellish the life of the father of modern science, offering a different and moving biography.
Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers.
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