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| | Amazon.com: Books: Galileo's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Despite its title, this impressive book proves to be less the story of Galileo's elder daughter, the oldest of his three illegitimate children, and more the story of Galileo himself and his trial before the Inquisition for arguing that Earth moves around the Sun. |
 | | This type of detail would not normally interest me, but here it is presented as a Daughter trying to maintain the physical health, as well as constantly buttressing the man's faith as he was accused, tried, sentenced, and watched his life's greatest work banned by his own Church. |
 | | And finally, portrays a devoted Daughter that suffered along with, and did what she could, to support her Father spiritually and physically with a devoted Daughter's love. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140280553?v=glance (2684 words) |
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