Galileo's Daughter By Dava Sobel
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel is a novel that discusses the life of Galileo Galilei and his scientific work. Sobel goes into detail about Galileo’s revolutionary ideas regarding gravity, space, and philosophy. Due to the novel taking place during the 16th and 17th century in Italy and him playing a huge role in the Scientific Revolution, he received harsh criticism and condemnation over this. However, his eldest daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, remained by his side and her letters praised her father’s life.
Throughout the novel, there were detailed letters between Galileo and his daughter Suor Maria Celeste and they displayed the love and respect she had for her father. She used titles like “Most Beloved Lord Father” to address him. Even though …show more content…
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to come up with the idea that the earth revolved around the sun. After many years of astronomical research that Copernican’s theory was more rational than Ptolemy’s theory which was that the center of the universe was the earth and everything revolved around it. Due to the fact that religion was still apart of people’s lives, the Catholic Church asked him to stop writing about the Copernican theory because it the idea that God “fixed the Earth upon its foundation, not to be moved forever.” (Psalms 103:1). In 1632, Galileo published Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican, which compared the two theories. Pope Urban VIII placed the book on the Catholic banned list and denounced Galileo as a heretic. However, the book was still being sold in the Black Market for the people. Galileo is well known for enhancing the telescope, compass, and discovered and investigated the sunspots. Also developing a thermometer.The last few years of Galileo’s life he dedicated his life to the study of bodies in motion which laid the foundation for Isaac Newton’s law of motion. Galileo's letters to Maria Celeste were never found but when she died, the story goes that her abbess burned them because they were from a heretic. He outlived her by eight years, but when he died, he had her buried very close to him just like their
Throughout the novel, there were detailed letters between Galileo and his daughter Suor Maria Celeste and they displayed the love and respect she had for her father. She used titles like “Most Beloved Lord Father” to address him. Even though …show more content…
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to come up with the idea that the earth revolved around the sun. After many years of astronomical research that Copernican’s theory was more rational than Ptolemy’s theory which was that the center of the universe was the earth and everything revolved around it. Due to the fact that religion was still apart of people’s lives, the Catholic Church asked him to stop writing about the Copernican theory because it the idea that God “fixed the Earth upon its foundation, not to be moved forever.” (Psalms 103:1). In 1632, Galileo published Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican, which compared the two theories. Pope Urban VIII placed the book on the Catholic banned list and denounced Galileo as a heretic. However, the book was still being sold in the Black Market for the people. Galileo is well known for enhancing the telescope, compass, and discovered and investigated the sunspots. Also developing a thermometer.The last few years of Galileo’s life he dedicated his life to the study of bodies in motion which laid the foundation for Isaac Newton’s law of motion. Galileo's letters to Maria Celeste were never found but when she died, the story goes that her abbess burned them because they were from a heretic. He outlived her by eight years, but when he died, he had her buried very close to him just like their