The Poet and the Scientist

Galileo and Milosz

A few months ago I read Czeslaw Milosz’s The Captive Mind, then his poem “Campo dei Fiori,” among many others, then Kim Stanley Robinson’s Galileo’s Dream, which is one of those extraordinarily perfect reading sequences that arrives like a gift of grace. I had known Robinson to be a talented and intelligent writer, but it was this book that convinced me…