Galileo: A Life
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Published in 1994 this book vividly depicts the brilliant scientist and dramatically portrays the turbulence and richness of the era in which he lived, a chronicle of Galileo's career focuses on his invention of the telescope, which forced a dangerous confrontation with the Inquisition.
"Fresh, sinewy, and altogether admirable." --Los Angeles Times "Reston paints a vivid yet sensitive portrait of Galileo: his effervescent friendships in the rich intellectual milieu of the Venetian Republic, the brew of excitement and egoistic paranoia that accompanied his astronomical discoveries with the telescope, the annoyances of a derelict brother and the lawsuit over his sister's dowry, the agony of the trip to Rome to face the Inquisition. It is a dramatic story, often told, but never as compellingly as this." --Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The book can be found on Amazon. |
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