Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Suor Maria Celeste, Dava Sobel (Translator), Dava Sobel (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2002-12-31Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780142437155ISBN-10:142437158UPC:9780142437155Book Category:Literary Collections, ScienceBook Subcategory:Letters, HistorySize:7.77 x 5.05 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCS0RF7K65
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
The fascinating letters of Galileo's eldest daughter to her father Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo's eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava Sobel has translated into English all 124 surviving letters that Virginia (renamed Suor Maria Celeste at the convent) wrote to Galileo. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780142437155ISBN-10:142437158UPC:9780142437155Book Category:Literary Collections, ScienceBook Subcategory:Letters, HistorySize:7.77 x 5.05 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCS0RF7K65
Dava Sobel is an award-winning former science writer for The New York Times. The author of the bestselling Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel's work has also appeared in Audubon, Discover, Life, and The New Yorker.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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Suor Maria Celeste, Dava Sobel (Translator), Dava Sobel (Introduction by)
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