July Book Club: Galileo’s Daughter

Seven of us gathered [virtually] on Wednesday, July 15, to discuss Dava Sobel’s “Galileo’s Daughter,” which we agreed is mistitled. Although some of us found it dry and/or hard to get into, we all were glad we’d read it, learning more about Galileo, science and his contributions to it, and life in medieval Italy. We admired a lot about the writing: informative, accessible, sometimes “exquisite.” We were impressed by the very close father-daughter relationship, sustaining to both of them, and some of us responded to the daughter’s letters with a determination to hand-write meaningful letters of our own.