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Rent Galileo's Daughter
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Narrator: Fritz Weaver
Format: Abridged-CD, Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Published: Jan 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology
Retail Price: $14.99
Discs: 5
Synopsis
The author of the bestselling 'Longitude' now offers a biography unlike any other on Galileo, focusing on the astronomer's relationship with his daughter, Virginia, a cloistered nun, illuminating an era when one man fought to reconcile the heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens revealed through his telescope. 40 illustrations.