Friday, February 27, 2009

Galileo's Daughter

This woman has some real intense love for her father who barely could live. She played a major role in Galileo's writing career by doing specific things.

First, she was his pharmacist and made him the medicine or remedies he needed to keep him healthy. The sister even fed her dying father who was fighting to stay alive.

more importantly though, she helped him edit the book he was writing, which was The Dialogo. This had to be a big deal because she was a woman and because she had no experience what so ever in the science field. She might not have had any idea of what he was talking about either.

The daughter of Galileo had also protected him in a couple of ways. First, when Galileo first made observations of a heliocentric Earth, he sent a letter to his daughter. His daughter promised to keep what he found out a secret since it is new information. Second, when Galileo was tried for heresy, the sister daughter actually look some blame in the situation.

It was because of her love for her father that she was as loving and generous

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