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Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never still left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded round the world. His telescopes allowed him to uncover the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the Earth moves around the sun. For this perception, he was brought prior to the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and obligated to spend his last years under house arrest. Galileo's oldest child was 13 when he located her in a convent near him in Florence, where she had taken the most likely name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's ideal source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven in to the narrative, graces her father's life now as it do then. Galileo's Little girl dramatically recolors the personality and achievement of any mythic shape whose 17th-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and faith. Moving between Galileo's general public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal courtroom in Rome during a time when humanity's notion of its put in place the cosmos was overturned. With all the current human drama and scientific excitement that recognized Latitude, Galileo's Little girl is an unforgettable story.
