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At the time, I was interested in narrative science books, so I had a stab at doing one about the weather. Although I taught physics for five years, and gone on to illustrate non fiction books, I hadn't actually written children's non-fiction before. I was aware of the risk I ran that my science story could be dismissed as sugar coating on a science education pill, so I made sure the story pulled its weight. I remembered being impressed with Galileo's Dialogue of the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, an imaginary debate between Salviati, the forward-thinking Copernican, and Simplicio, the Ptolemaic. In between them stood Sagredo, an open-minded intelligent layman. The work was written in popular Italian rather than scholarly Latin in order that his ideas would be accessible to the public. (It had the unfortunate effect of insulting the Pope--he reckoned Simplicio was an insulting caricature of himself which landed Galileo in a heap of trouble with the church.)
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