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Winner of a 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Galileo's Daughter is innovative history and a wonderfully told tale. Sobel seamlessly recounts history as wonderful narrative filled with outsized characters all marching toward a booming climax. Sobel is a master storyteller...What she has done, with her choice of excerpts and her strong sense of story, is bring a great scientist to life. Reading Galileo's Daughter, we hear Galileo's voice, we sense his pain and share his excitement, and once again. we marvel at how the human mind, and heart, can lift so much.#galileo
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