Published: April 26, 2012
Words: 96,166 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476351971

Short description

When Professor Paul Woodbridge receives a call from the mysterious Italian Contessa Antonietta Floridiana, she queries, “Suppose Galileo wrote a secret encoded message at the end of his life. Would the professor perhaps be able to decode it?” The quest for the solution to The Starry Message will lead the pair on a search across Italy that is destined to profoundly alter the course of humankind.

Extended description

The Starry Message is the historically based story of how the aging genius Galileo finds a means of forewarning future generations of an event that may well mean the end of the world. Unfortunately, the only viable means of dissemination available to the blind and imprisoned scientist is to deposit an encoded message in a secret hiding place. The discovery of this message by the Contessa Floridiana more than three centuries later initiates the search for the solution to the riddle.
Transporting the reader across space and time, the storyline moves seamlessly between seventeenth century and modern-day Italy in a series of events that increasingly intertwine the lives of Galileo, the professor and the contessa. As each discovery by the modern day pair builds on its predecessors, they are increasingly drawn into a complex web of intrigue, danger, and mindboggling scientific revelations. Ultimately, time and space seem to blend together as the quest to solve Galileo’s riddle.. (Read more) The Starry Message is the historically based story of how the aging genius Galileo finds a means of forewarning future generations of an event that may well mean the end of the world. Unfortunately, the only viable means of dissemination available to the blind and imprisoned scientist is to deposit an encoded message in a secret hiding place. The discovery of this message by the Contessa Floridiana more than three centuries later initiates the search for the solution to the riddle.
Transporting the reader across space and time, the storyline moves seamlessly between seventeenth century and modern-day Italy in a series of events that increasingly intertwine the lives of Galileo, the professor and the contessa. As each discovery by the modern day pair builds on its predecessors, they are increasingly drawn into a complex web of intrigue, danger, and mindboggling scientific revelations. Ultimately, time and space seem to blend together as the quest to solve Galileo’s riddle rushes to its shocking and fateful conclusion.
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mystery, historical, science, mechanics, florence, italy, rome, astronomy, venice, galileo, padua

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Review by: anonymous on Sep. 26, 2012 :
The main character, Professor Paul Woodbridge, is interesting, funny and quirky. He has a tendency to go off on a tangent at the drop of a hat........ his head so full of information he seems to have a problem keeping it in. As he and the contessa travel in search of Galileo's final message, the reader is taken on a guided tour through Italy. Paul's narratives are so descriptive, it is easy to visualize each place that the characters visit and will make you want to hop on a plane to visit Italy!
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