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In Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as “a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me.”
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Emmy Noether made perhaps the most significant discovery of the 20th century. Noether’s Theorem ties the laws of nature – from Newton’s laws to thermodynamics to charge conservation – directly to the geometry of space and time, the very fabric of reality. Physicist and author Ransom Stephens translates Emmy’s groundbreaking work into an easily understandable concept…one he’ll explain with a straw.