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A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava SobelIf you liked Galileo's Daughter, try these:
A biography of the remarkable - and in her time scandalous - seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.
Out of a 'fractured and fractious time,' the author asserts persuasively, the medieval mind evolved into the modern. Another thought-provoking winner from Grayling." - Kirkus
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