Galileo: A Life

by James Reston Jr.
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Biography and Memoir
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  • ID: 185
  • Added: 2025-09-03
  • Updated: 2025-09-03
  • ISBN: 9781587982514
  • Publisher: Beard Books
  • Published: 2005-01-01
  • Reviews: 3
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  • Fresh, sinewy, and altogether admirable.
  • Reston paints a vivid yet sensitive portrait of Galileo.
  • It is a dramatic story, often told, but never as compellingly as this.
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  • Reston delineates the personal and institutional storms that Galileo endured and seemed unerringly to seek out.
  • The use of present tense gives the characters a magnified, flesh-and-blood presence.
  • Reston recreates the era with immediacy by mining Galileo's journals and letters for dialogue.
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  • Galileo was no saint...he was arrogant and persnickity...and petulant.
  • The amazing number of his inventions boggle the head.
  • It was just too dry and BORING.
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