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Pages: 370
Authors: Alice Dreger
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-05 - Publisher: Penguin Books

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"Galileo's Middle Finger is historian Alice Dreger's eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. Dreger's chronicle begins with her own
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Pages: 354
Authors: Alice Domurat Dreger
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Galileo's Middle Finger describes Dreger's long and harrowing journey back and forth between the two camps for which she felt equal empathy: social justice warr
Galileo's Daughter
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Pages: 436
Authors: Dava Sobel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography
One of Us
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Alice Domurat Dreger
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-31 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within
Galileo’s Thinking Hand
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Horst Bredekamp
Categories: Art
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Contemporary biographies of Galilei emphasize, in several places, that he was a masterful draughtsman. In fact, Galilei studied at the art academy, which is whe