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1) I, Galileo
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the life of the Italian scientist from a first-person perspective that surveys his achievements while covering his world-changing ideas about a heliocentric solar system and his imprisonment for heresy.
2) Galileo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the life and discoveries of the noted mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, whose work changed the course of science.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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...
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Description
This is the last, and perhaps most important, work by the man Einstein called "the father of modern science." Confined to house arrest in the final years of his life after his heresy trial, Galileo Galilei composed his "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" in 1638 as a sort of magnum opus to a life devoted to scientific experimentation. The book outlines his investigations into physics and astronomy, and includes such topics as the law of free fall,...
10) Galileo
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Discusses the life story of Galileo, his use of an improved telescope to study the Earth's movement around the sun, and how his theories put him into conflict with the religious leaders of his time.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 31
Description
As the Thirty Years War continues to devastate Europe, the inhabitants of the American town mysteriously transported from the twentieth century to the seventeenth century confront a new foe and try to rescue Galileo from a heresy charge.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
An essential guide to milestone developments in astronomy, telling the story of our ideas about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos-from ancient times to the present day.From planets and stars to black holes and the Big Bang, take a journey through the wonders of the universe. Featuring topics from the Copernican Revolution to the mind-boggling theories of recent science, The Astronomy Book uses flowcharts, graphics, and illustrations to help...
16) Galileo
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The author and biogrpaher shows us that Galileo was far more than a mathematician: he was deeply knowledgeable in the arts, an expert on the epic poet Ariosto, a fine lutenist. The author notes that years of reading the poets and experimenting with literary forms were not mere sidebars - they enabled Galileo to write clearly and plausibly about the most implausible things. The author argues that Galileo changed the world not simply because he revolutionized...
17) Galileo's dream
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In a tale that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the future colonization of the moons of Jupiter, a renegade colonist named Ganymede brings Galileo into the future to alter the history of the human race.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"'The truth which we arrive at by means of mathematical proofs is the same truth that is known to divine wisdom.' Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Greatest World Systems, the most brilliant and persuasive defence of the Copernican theory that the Earth goes around the Sun to have been written in the seventeenth century, is one of the foundation texts of modern science. This new translation renders Galileo's lively Italian prose in clear modern English,...
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