Larger	Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Author: Dava Sobel		Audio book costs 2 credits.
	Book Information Publisher: Random House Audio Book Type: Audio Cassette Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780375409387 - ISBN-10: 0375409386 Publication Date: 11/2/1999

Read by Fritz Weaver
Three Cassettes, 5 Hours

Galileo's Daughter introduces us to the man whose belief that the Earth moved around the sun caused him to be brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and threatened with torture. In contrast, his daughter Virginia chose the quiet life of a cloistered nun. Sobel takes us through the trials and triumphs of Galileo's career and his familial relationships, and simultaneously illuminates an entire era of flamboyant Medici Grand Dukes, the bubonic plague, and history's most dramatic collusion between science and religion.