{"id":9085,"date":"2017-05-29T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9085"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:53:30","slug":"galileos-daughter-a-historical-memoir-of-science-faith-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9085","title":{"rendered":"Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love<\/a><\/em> (1999) Dava Sobel<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I read this a long time ago. Possibly soon after it came out.<\/p>\n

So when I needed some non-fiction bedtime reading, I decided to read it again.<\/p>\n

This book is based upon Galileo’s “124 surviving letters from the once-voluminous correspondence he carried on with his elder daughter” who at the time of their correspondence was the nun Marie Celeste. Interestingly, she and her younger sister became nuns because, as Galileo never married her mother, she herself was considered unmarriageable. <\/p>\n

One of the things that makes this story so fascinating is that neither Gailieo nor his daughter every lost faith in God or their Catholicism. <\/p>\n

\u201cI render infinite thanks to God,\u201d Galileo intoned after those nights of wonder, \u201cfor being so kind as to make me alone the first observer of marvels kept hidden in obscurity for all previous centuries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They may have disagreed with the politics of the papacy and cardinals of the time, but their faith was never in doubt.<\/p>\n

Galileo\u2019s conviction that God had dictated the Holy Scriptures to guide men\u2019s spirits but proffered the unraveling of the universe as a challenge to their intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

JUST AS SUDDENLY and unexpectedly as word of your new torment reached me, Sire, so intensely did it pierce my soul with pain to hear the judgment that has finally been passed, denouncing your person as harshly as your book…<\/p>\n

My dearest lord father, now is the time to avail yourself more than ever of that prudence which the Lord God has granted you, bearing these blows with that strength of spirit which your religion, your profession, and your age require.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think what makes this story so compelling is that despite everything that happened, neither lost their faith in God or Catholicism, no matter how much they disagreed with the council of cardinals edict against the Dialogues and Galileo himself.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Bloomsbury USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (1999) Dava Sobel I read this a long time ago. Possibly soon after it came out. So when I needed some non-fiction bedtime reading, I decided to read it again. This book is based upon Galileo’s “124 surviving letters from the once-voluminous correspondence he carried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,17,4,7,5],"tags":[420],"class_list":["post-9085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-history","category-non-fiction","category-religion-philosophy","category-science-nature","tag-dava-sobel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2mx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1018,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1018","url_meta":{"origin":9085,"position":0},"title":"The Planets","author":"Michelle","date":"March 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Planets (2005) Dava Sobel Several years ago I read and thoroughly enjoyed Galileo's Daughter, and when I found The Planets in paperback and a 4-for-3 sale, I decided to pick it up. The Planets looks at--unsurprisingly--the planets. Including (since it was published in 2005) Pluto. Although as a whole\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History"","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/non-fiction\/history"},"img":{"alt_text":"planets","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/planets.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19821,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/19821","url_meta":{"origin":9085,"position":1},"title":"The Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"February 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent, Audio Edition (2015) Marie Brennan narrated by Kate Reading Six years after her return for Eriga, Lady Trent and her companions set out for a two year journey around the world, to study dragons. For my own part, I found\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Voyage of the Basilisk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Voyage-Basilisk.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2256,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2256","url_meta":{"origin":9085,"position":2},"title":"The Tokaido Road","author":"Michelle","date":"February 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tokaido Road (1991) Lucia St. Clair Robson Despite my known dislike of boinking books, I am a huge fan of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. I admit, I was initially a fan for the cover snark, but any site that loves and defends genre fiction, and is blunt and in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "9\/10"","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tokaido-Road.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2027,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2027","url_meta":{"origin":9085,"position":3},"title":"Faro’s Daughter","author":"Michelle","date":"October 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Faro's Daughter (1941) Georgette Heyer Max Ravenscar is one of the most wealthy men in London, but seems to care little for high society and fashion. Yet, as trustee of his nephew's fortune, a call from his sister to keep Adrian from marrying the niece of a woman who runs--of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "British"","block_context":{"text":"British","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/british"},"img":{"alt_text":"Faro's Daughter","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Faros-Daughter.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22009,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22009","url_meta":{"origin":9085,"position":4},"title":"The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter","author":"Michelle","date":"May 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rat-Catcher's Daughter (2019) K.J. Charles (Lilywhite Boys) Set in London in 1893 Another ace-ace romance! Set prior to the first Lilywhite Boys story, here we have Stan, Jerry and Templeton's fence meeting his love, and arranging for her to be rescued from a wannabe crimelord. I'd forgotten for some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Rat-Catchers Daughter","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/The-Rat-Catchers-Daughter.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4681,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4681","url_meta":{"origin":9085,"position":5},"title":"Dangerous Women","author":"Michelle","date":"June 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Dangerous Women (2013) edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois \"Some Desperado\" (Red Country story) by Joe Abercrombie \"My Heart is Either Broken\" by Megan Abbott \"Nora\u2019s Song\" by Cecelia Holland \"The Hands That Are Not There\" by Melinda Snodgrass \"Bombshells\" (Harry Dresden story) by Jim Butcher \"Raisa Stepanova\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Anthology"","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/anthology"},"img":{"alt_text":"Dangerous-Women","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dangerous-Women.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}