Page de couverture de Galileo's Daughter

Galileo's Daughter

A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

 Aperçu

30 jours d'essai gratuit à Audible Standard

Essayez l’abonnement standard gratuitement
Choisissez 1 livre audio par mois dans notre collection contenant plus de 900 000 titres.
Écoutez les livres audio que vous avez sélectionnés tant que vous êtes membre.
Profitez d’un accès illimité à des balados incontournables.
L'abonnement Standard se renouvelle automatiquement au tarif de 8,99 $/mois + taxes applicables après 30 jours. Annulation possible à tout moment.

Galileo's Daughter

Auteur(s): Dava Sobel
Narrateur(s): Fritz Weaver
Essayez l’abonnement standard gratuitement

8,99 $/mois après 30 jours. Annulable en tout temps

Acheter pour 9,54 $

Acheter pour 9,54 $

À propos de cet audio

 Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years under house arrest.

Galileo's oldest child was thirteen when he placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then.

GALILEO'S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER is an unforgettable story. Christianisme Philosophie Professionnels et universitaires Science et technologie

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Sobel is a master storyteller...she brings a great scientist to life."—The New York Times Book Review.

"Innovative history and a wonderfully told tale."—Newsweek.
Pas encore de commentaire