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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 07 January 2012 01:58:41AM *  2 points [-]

A "preview" electronic version of this book is available through the translator's website here: http://www.msri.org/~levy/files/russo/

I enjoyed the book a lot. It's true that the author reads Hellenic scientists in the most favorable possible light while reading Renaissance scientists in the least favorable possible light. But he gives extensive quotations from the available sources, so that you can judge for yourself whether his interpretations are stretched.