In our October 6, 2022, issue, Erin Maglaque reviews The Incomparable Monsignor, by J.L. Heilbron, a biography of the Veronese astronomer Francesco Bianchini, whose life and influential work—notably the use of an enormous telescope he built in the middle of Rome to view the face of Venus—spanned the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Maglaque […]
