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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel memory making She has a rich backgroundInspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early seventeenth century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics indeed of modern