Great book you may have missed

In honor of the 400th anniversary of the first demonstration by Galilei Galileo of his telescope, we are featuring a wonderful book about Galileo. Titled Galileo's daughter : a historical memoir of science, faith, and love, Dava Sobel's book is "[b]y turns a moving portrait of the loving relationship between a father and daughter, a riveting chronicle of one of the most intensive battles between scientific truth and religious belief, a fresh revelatory biography of one of the most magnificent minds the world has ever known, [and] a masterful weaving of the lives of the mind, the body, and the soul." Check it out!