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Science 19 September 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5896, pp. 1636 - 1637
DOI: 10.1126/science.1162479
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Life of a Magus and Martyr

Michael Dirda

Giordano Bruno
Philosopher/Heretic
by Ingrid D. Rowland
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008. 345 pp. $27. ISBN 9780809095247.
The author discusses the nomadic life of the 16th-century philosopher and former priest whose execution in Rome in 1600 made him an early martyr for science.
The reviewer, the author of Classics for Pleasure and several other collections of essays, is a longtime columnist for the Washington Post Book World. E-mail: mdirda{at}gmail.com

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