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BookGalileo Galilei

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  • Galileo Galilei / by Michael White.

Published/Created

  • San Diego, Calif. : Blackbirch Press, 2005.
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Description

  • 64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

ISBN

  • 1410305031 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LC classification

  • QB36.G2 W4818 2005

Contents

  • On trial -- Guilty -- "The Dialogue" -- The Church -- Conflict -- The Age of Enlightenment -- "The Wrangler" -- The pendulum swing -- The first clocks -- The end of student life -- The storyteller -- Pisa again -- The Leaning Tower of Pisa -- Farewell to Pisa -- Padua -- Happy times -- Problems to solve -- Rolling, not falling -- The idea of acceleration -- More experiments, more discoveries -- Cannonballs -- Supernova -- The birth of the telescope -- An opportunity -- Watching the moon and planets -- Venus -- "The Starry Messenger" -- A burning jealousy -- "The Assayer" -- The trial -- House arrest -- Surviving -- "Two New Sciences" -- Galileo's secret book -- Final days -- Remembering Galileo -- Important dates.

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Notes

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Text in Spanish and English.

Series

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  • 2004026921

Dewey class no.

  • 520/.92 B

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  • spa eng eng

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  • e-it---

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  • Book

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