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. Fr...
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New York, New York :
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Who was Galileo?
- Boyhood
- Hungry for knowledge
- A rebel teacher
- Happy years
- Looking at the heavens
- The starry messenger
- A very dangerous thing?
- A masterpiece
- On trial
- Final years.
