You can purchase this book clicking here.

If you wish to purchase further titles already reviewed here, please return each time to SBB. Using the direct links available at our site is easier than searching by title, author, or ISBN number.

EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Here at last is a readable and thorough account of the significance of one of the most pivotal and intriguing scientists in history. Albert Di Canzio's book connects Galileo's work to that of his major precursors and successors and to contemporary challenges facing the humans on planet Earth.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Prologue.

-Introduction.

-1- Shadow of a Pyramid.

-2- From Bedrock Heavenbound.

-3- The Rebirth of Science.

-4- The Spiral Staircase.

-5- The Royal Road to Geometry.

-6- The Celestial Beacon.

-7- Message from the Stars.

-8- Spiderwebs from the Sky.

-9- The Blue Balcony.

-10- The Unexcluded Middle.

-11- Two Baked Pears and a Rare Winter Rose.

-12- Edge of a Conic Slice.

-13- Path of a Pyramid.

-Epilogue.

-Bibliography.

-Author and Translator Index.

-Subject Index.

OUR REVIEW

There exist several works that speak about Galileo in biographical terms and that even examine line by line his immortal legacy. Galileo, His Science and His Significance for the Future of Man, is mostly centered in analysing the importance of this man for the future of science.

Yet it also is a controversial book, as it attacks the scholarly media that consider the work done by Galileo (or that of Copernicus) as little worthy of any merit before the greater transcendence of the theory of Relativity. In this sense, Galileo is praised by Di Canzio far beyond his scientific stature, emphasizing other aspects of his personality, like his love for poetry, his attraction for epistemology, his side as a businessman...

Di Canzio is not totally objective, like he himself admits, since Galileo is one of his personal heroes. Yet the passionate pages that he gives us in his book are very much worth their while because they flee from the topics and the already usual references to Galileo the philosopher, mathematician, writer or educator.

The personal style of Di Canzio's will surprise many of us. Nevertheless, we are before a gust of fresh air among the uncountable visions that about his character has Galileo had on the part of multiple authors, including his modern-day biographers. In any case, the best value of Di Canzio is his non- scholarly origins, which set him away from any prejudice induced by other currents of opinion.

Widely referenced, the result of almost a decade of research, this book contains all the ingredients to attract those non-conformist readers who do not wish to get to know the scientists of the past under the typical topics of the present.