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Found 2 from your keywords: subject="Astronomers"
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Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathemati…
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Peter Sis

"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so, he offered objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed…

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0374371911
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32 pages : illustration ; 30 cm
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F60
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Who was Galileo?
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John O'BrienPatricia Brennan Demuth

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 tur…

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9780448479859
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105 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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920 DEM