Galileo's Daughter LARGE PRINT Author:Dava Sobel Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether." In doing so, she also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto ... more »lost to history, described by her father as "a women of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me." Of Galileo's three illegitimate children, the eldest best mirrored his brilliance, industry, and sensibility, and therefore became his confidante. Suor Maria Celeste's loving support was her father's source of strength in the tumultuous years when the class of his work with Catholic doctrine defined the schism between science and religion.« less