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Who was galileo?

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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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EL 520.92 DEM w

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New York : Penguin Workshop., 2015

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105 p. : ill., maps; 19 cm.

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English

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9780448479859

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520.92

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Physicists
Italy
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Astronomers

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Patricia Demuth, illustrated by John O'Brien.

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