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Re:Longitude found: the story of Harrison's clocks by throw0101a on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:30PM (#31830691)
> It's a biography of Galileo supplemented with letters he exchanged with his daughter, who was a Catholic nun.

Note: he had two daughters, both nuns. (Which was really the only option for unmarried women at the time.)

It's just that the letters were only with one of them.

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