Galileo Galilei. The Modern Era, #12

In 17th-century Italy, Galileo Galilei transforms a world built on authority into one sustained by evidence. Between classrooms, courts, and makeshift observatories, his life traces the complete arc of human genius: radical curiosity, ambition, discoveries that change the very idea of the 'heavens, ' and an inevitable conflict with power. This book narrates how a telescope turned the firmament into a political territory, how a 'dialogue' wanted to be a debate and ended up a trial, and how, even under house arrest and in the darkness of blindness, Galileo wrote a final work destined to outlive him.
More than a biography, it is the portrait of a tension that remains relevant today: science as a quest. and as a conflict.