Byrne’s subject is ideas that fell asleep for decades or centuries and then came roaring back: Vermeer and Bach, continental drift, dark matter, hand-washing. He borrows the term “sleeping beauties” from a 2004 scientometrics paper and asks why some work waits and how it gets rediscovered. It was published October 6 as a 400-page Penguin Press hardcover at $36, and he reads the audiobook himself.