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Description
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.
Publication date
February 05, 2015
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448479859
Lexile Measure
760
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology JNF038060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Europe JNF025160 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Renaissance