The Mexican intellectual with an unassailable independence of mind who refused to be cowed was a man of the people, known by Mexico City’s cab drivers as well as its leaders.
In Lawerence Goldstone’s ‘The Astronomer,’ a young student is enmeshed in a plot to silence a revolutionary thinker. Plus: William Eamon’s ‘The Professor of Secrets’ shows the plight of Renaissance-era doctors.
