tani reviewed on 7/30/2005

Helpful Score: 2

Until I read this book, I had no idea that Galileo had a beloved daughter who was a nun. In addition to narrative, the book contains a number of interesting pictures and diagrams, but at the center of it all is the letters. I have to agree with the blurb on the back cover, which says, "Deftly weaving historical detail with the warm, earnest, and solicitous writings of a loving daughter, Sobel does for 17th-century technology and religion what she did for the science of navigation in the 1995 bestseller, Longitude..."

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