This file has a root element package and four child elements. When accessing or downloading ebsco ebooks, you may see the choice to select ebooks in either pdf or epub format. The daughter thing is a hook, and i found that to be the weakest part of the book. In galileos daughter, dava sobel author of the bestselling longitude tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, sister maria celeste. I have looked carefully at the italian originals of all the letters translated in full in galileos daughter. Galileos daughter epub adobe drm can be read on any device that can open epub adobe drm files. I felt a bond with the title character, though she was a catholic nun living in tuscany in the early sixteenth century, and i was raised jewish in the bronx in the midtwentieth. What is the difference between pdf and epub when downloading. Galileos daughter ebook by dava sobel rakuten kobo. The love of galileos daughter, mariaceleste, is clear from her writings to him which are a key feature of the book, and which rather wonderfully depict late 16th, early 17th, century convent life. The daughter of the title sends him letters, usually including requests for money. I often think this was the book i was born to write.
Convert your pdf files, ebooks from other readers or just plain text to the epub format. The epub specification is a distribution and interchange format standard for digital publications and documents. The daughters are thus unmarriageable, and are sent to a convent. In the wake of her success with galileos daughter, dava sobel brought out an edition of maria celestes complete surviving letters, letters to father 2001.
Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom galileo described as a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness. Galileo, in this historical memoir, has had three children by a woman not his wife. A reasonable work and interesting for trying to convey the life and times of galileos daughter as well as the life of the great man himself. Or read your own drmfree books in the supported formats. One hundred and twenty letters from maria to her famous father survive, and these are the basis of marias story.