More Noted Things

Rachel Donadio,"A Museum Display of Galileo Has a Saintly Feel," NYT, 22 July, features the newly renamed and reopened Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. Here is a video guide to its Virtual Museum's Room VI on"The Science of Warfare".

Jordan Ellenberg reviews Amir Alexander's Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics for the Barnes & Noble Review, 22 July.

Roger Cardinal,"Lautréamont's poison-drenched pages," TLS, 21 July, reviews Lautréamont's Oeuvres Completes, Jean-Luc Steinmetz, ed.

Stephen Burt,"The Verse Electric," The Book, 23 July, reviews C. K. Williams's On Whitman.

Matthew Price,"Blood on the Tracks," The National, 22 July, reviews Sean McMeekin's The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1919.

Toby Perl Freilich,"Historic Shift," Tablet, 22 July, reviews Christopher Browning's Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp.

Jeremy Treglown,"Koestler the dangerous intellectual," TLS, 21 July, reviews Michael Scammell's Koestler: The indispensable intellectual.

Scott McLemee,"A man outside," The National, 22 July, reviews John A. Hall's Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography.