Volume 48, Number 3 · February 22, 2001

Star Trek

By Ingrid D. Rowland
Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
by Anthony Grafton

Harvard University Press, 284 pp., $35.00

Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science
by Hilary Gatti

Cornell University Press, 257 pp., $45.00

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel

Penguin, 420 pp., $14.00 (paper)

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
by J.L. Heilbron

Harvard University Press, 366 pp., $35.00

—Montague Slater, libretto for Peter Grimes, Act I, Scene 2



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