Galileo : scientist and star gazer
by Mitton, Jacqueline.
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BookSeries: What's their story?. Publisher: Oxford University Press. 1997Edition: 1st ed. Paperback.Description: 32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0199101949.Subject(s): Astronomers - Biography | Astronomers | Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 | Galileo, 1564-1642 | Biography | Men - Biography | Physicists - Italy - Biography | Stage 12 storybooks | Scientists - Biography | Scientists | UOI - Where we are in place and time - History
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Galileo's revolutionary scientific work brought him into conflict with the authorities of his time, but earned him an honoured place in the history books. He swept away old notions of the universe by observing the skies through a telescope and confirming that the Earth and planets travel round the sun.