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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

Galileo's Daughter. A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. By Dava Sobel. (New York: Penguin Books. 2000. Pp. xii, 420. $14.00 paperback.)

On a cold December morning in 1613, the young Grand Duke, Cosimo II, hosted a breakfast at the Medici palace in Florence. Among those present were his formidable mother, the Dowager Grand Duchess Christina, and the Benedictine monk Benedetto Castelli, former student and correspondent of Galileo. Not surprisingly, the conversation soon turned to the Copernican controversy when the Grand Duchess asked Father Castelli how he would resolve the apparent contradiction between the heliocentric claims of Copernicus with biblical passages such as that ...

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