Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
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Book Summary Author: Dava Sobel Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2000-11-01 ISBN: 0140280553 Number of pages: 432 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) |
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Book Reviews of the Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Customer Review: Fascinating New Tack in Creating a Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Journalist/writers this year seem to have discovered the tack of tapping into a whole new area of source material about a previously "well-known" personage and weaving an entirely new story and slant. Sobel does it here using the daughter's letters; Johnson and Coates' Nabokov's Blues does it with the previously untapped scientic documents from that master's years as a scientist. Sobel not only presents the letters themselves but is cunningly able to use them to devise also some "new wine". I don't know if there are any other books around this year that take this tack-- perhaps one could argue that the controversial bio's of Sagan also tap new material-- but I think it is this new combination of "new material/new slant" that makes these kinds of efforts so intriguing. With Sobel we have a proven record from Longitude; how simply the added ingenuity of old letters make new story. Any other archives or backwaters laying around out there for the resourceful journalist to tap into? Hard to say, but in the meantime, Galileo's Daughter is bound to fascinate for a long time to come. A great book.