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Title details for Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel - Wait list

Galileo's Daughter

by Dava Sobel
George Guidall
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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.
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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged
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  • ISBN: 9781415953402
  • File size: 311421 KB
  • Release date: May 3, 2005
  • Duration: 10:48:47
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subjects

Biography & Autobiography Philosophy Religion & Spirituality Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1530
Text Difficulty:12

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.
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Philosophy Religion & Spirituality Nonfiction