TY  - BOOK
AU  - Demuth,Patricia
AU  - O'Brien,John
TI  - Who was Galileo? 
T2  - Who was...?
SN  - 9780448479859
AV  - QB36.G2 
U1  - 520.92 
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Physicists
N1  - R
; 760
; Lexile
; R
; Raz-Plus

N2  - "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"--
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