Galileo's Lost Message

An intricate mystery for those who are interested in the history of science, Galileo’s Lost 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 Antonietta Floridiana more than three centuries later initiates the search for the solution to the riddle. Enlisting the aid of American Professor Paul Woodbridge, she sets off with him on a journey across Italy in search of the solution to the cryptic message. 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 the previous one, 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.