Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Audiobook

" This was an informative account of Galileo's life...that the author pieced together from existing documents, historical literature, and surviving letters from Galileo's devoted and servient daughter. I admire / appreicate the effort, volume of reconstruction, and time this work of non fiction entailed. However, I think I would have been more interested in the work during my high school or college years, when I was more familiar with the events and historical figure of science. The accuracy and recanting of history from 17th century Italy was just a bit too dry for me right now. But glad I read the book. A good "refresher course". However since the letter's are not the primary source of information ....I did find the title and content at odds. "

" A marvelous glimpse of Galileo's life and lifetimes. "

" A bit slow in parts - I didn't think the letters were really all that fascinating. I certainly learned a lot about Galileo and the Catholic church. "

" Not very surprisingly, the title is a gimmick.. the letters between Galileo and Mary Celeste did add a personal touch to the book, butmmmostlit is just the same biography of Galileo. I did learn some new things though, mainly about Galileo's other scientific endeavors (Other than the celestial.. those that are usually mentioned when learning about his work). "

" FINALLY finished this one- after stopping and starting several times. I am very interested in the subject of the book, but I thought the writing style was very dry and difficult to get through. I didn't perk up with it until near the end, around the time of the trial. Interesting story of his struggle between being deeply religious, and wanting the world to know about his discoveries (which were frowned upon by the church). I thought the title was misleading, as I don't think the character of his daughter came through that strong. "

" Bleh. I was bored. It was VERY biographical and unfortunately I expected a novel. There was SOME interesting stuff though, like I didn't know Galileo's Dad was one of the creators of Italian Opera in the late 1500's. "

" fascinating historically accurate portrait of an amazing man and the daughter I never even knew he had. I cried when maria Celeste died and have so much more empathy for Galileo and his struggle to be true to truth and his faith. "

" Exceptional book on Galileo's life. Moves a bit slow but it's indepth. "

" This book tells the story of Galileo from his daughter's point of view. Sobel does her research and crafts an eminently readable story. Most interesting to me were the discussion of the papacy and life inside a sixteenth century abbey. "

" I am a tried and true historical fiction girl so I FORCED myself to finish this book regardless of how much I hated reading it. (Sorry Dava) "

" Forced my way through about half of it before giving up. Slow and a bit boring. "

" For some reason I thought this book was about Galilelo and his daughter, not just a biography of Galileo. Not worth the read "

" I don't usually read biography's but I thought this one sounded good. It gave interesting insight into Galileo's life as well as that of the period. Overall, it was interesting if not a real pageturner. "

" Fascinating read I thought. I assigned this as the February read for the book group I run. I can hardly wait to see what they think. I liked the glimpse of Galileo's life, the tragedies, daily events, and humanity of his daily existence. "

" If you like history you will like these books. "

" Interesting but too much like reading a history book.....I kept waiting for the daughter's letters and story. Made it to page 80 or so and gave it up. "

" A very interesting look at Galileo's life through letters he wrote to his daughter while he was incarcerated. "

" The first 100 pages are tough, but it is well worth it! A wonderful book! "

" This book would be better to watch as PBS documentary. It took forever for me to get through, but once I was done I was glad I read it and I felt I could have read it again and enjoyed and understood it better. "