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soniagracelm's review
4.0
Took me ages to get through, but was worth the slog. The translation was readable and skillful, and it's fascinating to read the discoveries that were controversial and groundbreaking in their day but are old hat now. Why make so much of mountains on the moon, for example, when everyone knows the craters come from asteroid impacts. Of course the moon is not smooth. But Galileo was the first person to see that through a telescope, the first person to posit that perhaps the moon, and by extension the planets, were more like earth. It's rather like reading a time capsule.
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