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By DIANA BIRD Rappahannock News Contributing Writer Galileo, James Reston Jr.’s ' biography of Galileo Galilei ' 1564-1642) seems to document when modern times began — when Galileo’s first looking through a telescope at the moon may have been the initial act antic„ ipating other men arriving upon it. Galileo devoted his life to sci; entific investigations as a mathe;I-matician, astronomer and physi-‘•cist, but Mr..Reston’s biography does not explicate his professional achievements. The biography, rather, takes us into the times and places of Galileo’s work: Pisa, Padua, Venice, Florence and Rome, showing us the relationship of science and a Renaissance life to pol• itics, religion and society in gener1>Z The many issues Galileo’s -^career raised prove as interesting I^as any novel or mystery story. The • role of science in war, status or prestige, its relationships to secrecy and self-agg’randizement all appear. Galileo was tried by the • Inquisition for heresy in 1633 when he was 70 years old. His fame and political support spared him execution but not condemnation.
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