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Review Sidereus Nuncius & Stellar Polaris is a history of the scientific relations between Italy and Sweden in early modern history. Insightful essays comprising this scholarly tome include: Marco Beretta's Galileo in Sweden; Clericuzio & Conforti's Christina's Patronage of Italian Science; Marie-Louise Roden's Cesare Macchiati, Queen Cristina's First Italian Physician; Allan Ellenius' Ulisse Aldrovandi as a Source of Olof Rudbeck's "Book of Birds"; Guiseppe Olmi's Sweden in the Travel Journals of Lorenzo Magalotti and Francesco Negri; Marta Cavazza's Swedish Science in Bologna During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Inge Jonsson's Swedenborg and Italian Science; Gunnar Broberg's Italian Sources in Linnaeus's Scientific Works; Ferdinando Abbri's Linneaeus and Italian Culture; Seven Widmalm's Professor Celsius and Don Adnrea; Tore Frangsmyr's Swedish and Italian Geology in the Eighteenth Century; and Antonella Alimento's The Abbe Domenico Michelessi in Sweden. "Notes on the Contributors" and an "Index of Names" further enhances the value of this benchmark work. -- Midwest Book Review
