In a series of letters to her nephew, Galileo's daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, tells the story of her father's discoveries with his telescope. She shows Galileo as a father, scholar, and devout Catholic whose ambition to share the wonders he was discovering led to his tragic conflict with the Catholic church.
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