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Not only is there a voluminous literature on galileo there is even a voluminous literature on the literature of galileo
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In addition galileos daughters letters are almost uniformly devoid of any real personality but merely reflect the tradition of religious decorum of that era
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But on the whole they together created a word picture of the times and life in that period
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We can learn from this and see the importance to trust science not run from it to protect our own personal greed
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On page 347 maria celeste galilei dies from dysentery a young woman who devoted herself to the nunnery and to correspondence with her famous father
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Parts of that correspondence seem quite a drag but what can be seen on page 347 finally reveals that galileo was not offput by how much money her poverty cost him
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If not financially he is surely intellectually strangled and still obeisant to foolish catholic dogma
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The letters are part of the book but they are not part of the story