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5 pages in length. The relationship that existed between Galileo and his daughter Virginia, later renamed Suor Maria Celeste after entering a convent at age 13, was unlike most other father/daughter alliances, inasmuch as both individuals drew their very strength of spiritual and mortal existence from the other to the exclusion of virtually all others. The extent to which Galileo treasured the eldest of his three illegitimate children is eloquently captured in Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter, a profound and touching account of social expectations and personal triumphs that helped to connect both Galileo and Maria Celeste for life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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all others. The extent to which Galileo treasured the eldest of his three illegitimate children is eloquently captured in Dava Sobels Galileos Daughter, a profound and touching account of
social expectations and personal triumphs that helped to connect both Galileo and Maria Celeste for life. Bibliography lists 3 sources. TLCGalDa.rtf "GALILEOS DAUGHTER" BY
DAVA SOBEL by (c) November 2001 paper properly! The relationship that existed between Galileo and his
daughter Virginia, later renamed Suor Maria Celeste after entering a convent at age 13, was unlike most other father/daughter alliances, inasmuch as both individuals drew their very strength of spiritual
and mortal existence from the other to the exclusion of virtually all others. The extent to which Galileo treasured the eldest of his three illegitimate children is eloquently captured
in Dava Sobels Galileos Daughter, a profound and touching account of social expectations and personal triumphs that helped to connect both Galileo and Maria Celeste for life. "I render
infinite thanks to God for being so kind as to make me alone the first observer of marvels kept hidden in obscurity for all previous centuries" (Sobel PG). Based upon
one hundred and twenty-four remaining authentic letters that Maria Celeste wrote to her father, Sobel paints a portrait of love, devotion, respect and overwhelming admiration between Galileo and his like-minded
daughter, one of the primary reasons that the famed scientist is said to have taken such a shine to Maria Celeste over his other two children. Her intrinsic ability
to think like her father, as well as express herself as few others in his life could, was invaluable to Galileos spiritual and scientific mind. That she mirrored his
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