NOVA VIEWS GALILEO THROUGH DAUGHTER'S EYES

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 29, 2002 | Copyright information

He was one of history's most important scientists locked in a battle with the Catholic church over his evidence that the Earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around. She was his illegitimate daughter, a cloistered nun, caught in an awkward position because of her father's subversive teaching. But Galileo's daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, remained his closest confidante through his trial before the Inquisition, even serving as his editor.

Tonight, NOVA explores Galileo's lif...

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