NOVA – Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens

The pioneering astronomer and condemned heretic involves life on this fascinating movie model of Dava Sobel’s best-seller, Galileo’s Daughter. British actor Simon Callow portrays the seventeenth-century genius who defied custom and years of imprisonment to advance a brand new imaginative and prescient of the universe, recreated by way of letters from his devoted daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.