Talk:Galileo's Daughter

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This article is not an encyclopedia entry. I will truncate the opinions from it.

–Attempted to break up the page more like an encyclopedia entry, and added a background to the story. I think some other good additions would be a book cover, and issues (eg: political) that the book explores. I'm leaving the cleanup tag there as I think this page still needs some work. --French line 13:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Infobox

I added a rudimentary infobox to the article page. But feel free — obligated, even — to tweak it: I'm not familiar with this particular box.  — AnnaKucsma   (Talk to me!) 22:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC) Edited 19:37, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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Hey man you did a good job with this. i complement you. Keep it up! thanks a lot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 06:36, 26 August 2008‎ (talk • contribs) Bro out

Junk – should be deleted

This is not an encyclopedia article at all. It resembles, more than anything else, a back cover book blurb. If someone who has read the book wants to summarize it, well and good, but this isn't even an adequate summary (lacks objectivity; adjectival; gushing, etc.). I would recommend deleting it, since, as it stands it is a mere advertisement for the book and little else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theonemacduff (talk • contribs) 00:58, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Untrue

We are told that Galileo's astronomical discoveries led him to adopt the Copernican system. Actually, he adopted the Copernican system in about 1595, as he said. This is some time before he started using a telescope. Much of Sobel's book is untrue.

Sunspots were noted by the Chinese before Galileo's time.

See Sunspot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.246.88 (talk) 10:18, 4 December 2014 (UTC)