GALILEO'S DREAM
$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey
London : HarperVoyager, 2009 . Octavo, boards. First British edition. GALILEO'S DREAM complexly suggests that our world is in fact an alternate history, the Jonbar point for which is the Catholic Inquisition's failure to burn Galileo at the stake, so that he lives out his life in house arrest, squabbling furiously and creating new discourse with the rest of Europe. In the 'real' world, his death has inflamed and
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