Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love. Dava Sobel
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Название: Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

Автор: Dava Sobel

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Историческая литература

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      Galileo’s Daughter

      A drama of science, faith and love

      Dava Sobel

      To the fathers,

       Galileo Galilei

       &

       Samuel Hillel Sobel, MD,

       in loving memory

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       PART TWO On Bellosguardo

       [IX] How our father is favoured

       [X] To busy my self in your service

       [XI] What we require above all else

       [XII] Because of our zeal

       [XIII] Through my memory of their eloquence

       [XIV] A small and trifling body

       [XV] On the right path by the grace of God

       [XVI] The tempest of our many torments

       PART THREE In Rome

       [XVII] While seeking to immortalise your fame

       [XVIII] Since the Lord chastises us with these whips

       [XIX] The hope of having you always near

       [XX] That I should be begged to publish such a work

       PART FOUR Care of the Tuscan Embassy, Villa Medici, Rome

       [XXI] How anxiously I live, awaiting word from you

       [XXII] In the comfort of the Holy Office of the Inquisition

       [XXIII] Vainglorious ambition, pure ignorance and inadvertence

       [XXIV] Faith rested in the miraculous Madonna of Imprueta

       [XXV] Judgment passed on your book and your person

       PART FIVE At Siena

       [XXVI] Not knowing how to refuse him the keys

       [XXVII] Terrible destruction on the feast of San Lorenzo

       [XXVIII] Recitation of the penitential psalms

       [XXIX] The book of life, or, A prophet accepted in his own land

       PART SIX From Arcetri

       [XXX] My soul and its longing

       [XXXI] Until I have this from your lips

       [XXXII] As I struggle to understand

       [XXXIII] The memory of the sweetnesses

       IN GALILEO’S TIME

       FLORENTINE WEIGHTS, MEASURES, CURRENCY

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       NOTES

       APPRECIATION

       INDEX

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