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York City in 1941 and was educated at the University of North Carolina and Oxford University, majoring in Philosophy.
Reston lives in Chevy Chase, Md. with his wife, Denise Leary, an attorney at National Public Radio. They have three children. Well acquainted with our part of Virginia he often visits his family home in nearby Hume.
Reston’s previous books have spotlighted military or cult leaders, politicians, or sports figures. Science and its collision with theology in the early 17th Century is new literacy territory for him.
On Oct. 31, 1992, more than 350 years after being accused, tried and condemned by the Roman Catholic Church for adhering to the Copernican model of the Universe, Galileo received an apology from the Vatican. The Papal statement spurred renewed interest in the controversy that has long surrounded the life and work of this brilliant mathematician, astronomer and inventer.
After reading Reston’s fine book you can actually believe that you have met, known and truly learned to understand that complex and unique human being, Galileo Galilei. A quote form Galileo’s own son fondly memorializes his father: “He had a jovial face, especially in old age...His discourse was rich in sentences and serious in conception. In light conversations he had great wit and humor. He was easily moved to rage but more easily placated. His memory was exquisite...He found lies detestable,
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