Heaven and the Heretic
Mar 02, 2020
4 minutes
Review by Sam Kean
GALILEO AND THE SCIENCE DENIERS
BY MARIO LIVIO
Simon & Schuster, 304 pp., $28
MARIO LIVIO MORE or less apologizes up front for writing yet another biography of Galileo. After all, hundreds of books on the physicist already exist, so what’s left to say? Still, Livio thinks that Galileo and the Science Deniers can add to the Galileo canon in three ways. And though he succeeds with two of his aims, he comes up short on the third, albeit through no fault of his own.
The first reason Livio wrote the book is that most Galileo biographies are pretty dense. There’s a lot
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