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Who was Galileo?

Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He invented a telescope to observe the heavens. From there, not even the sky was the limit! He turned long-held notions about the universe topsy turvy with his support of a sun-centric solar system. Patricia Brennan Demuth offers a sympathetic portrait of a brilliant man who lived in a time when speaking scientific truth to those in power was still a dangerous proposition.

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920 DEM
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New York, USA : Grosset & Dunlap.,
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105 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Language
English
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9780448479859
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920
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Subject(s)
Physicists
Astronomers
Italy
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
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