Title Vitruvian Boy

A
Novel
that
Celebrates
Science

"Now I am afraid my usefulness is at an end."

"Maestro Galileo, don't be like that," answered Sean. "I promise you you will go down in history."

"That's what my teacher said. If you don't study harder, he said, you will go down in history."

Sean tries to cheer a depressed Galileo up.
[Vitruvian Boy, Chapter 8, Falling for Science]

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