Galileo by J.L. Heilbron

Galileo

J.L. Heilbron

528 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced

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In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a "hurried little masterpiece" in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope--the craters of the moon, the ...

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