The ideas, the dramas, the protagonists, the contradictions that coexist in the century and a half in which the difficult birth of science takes place.

"An admirable example of ease, transparency, precision in dominating an immense matter such as that of the progressive affirmation, in the various European countries, of the image of the world that has emerged since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century" Armando Massarenti "Il Sole 24Ore"