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  • Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Physicists -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
     
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    Who was Galileo? / by Patricia Brennan Demuth ; illustrated by John O'Brien.
    by Demuth, Patricia, author.
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    New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, c2015.
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  • Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Physicists -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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    9780448479859 (softcover)
    0448479850 (softcover)
    9780605851481 (Perma-Bound)
    0605851484 (Perma-Bound)
    9780606365949 (Turtleback)
    060636594X (Turtleback)
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    Who was-- ?
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    105 pages: illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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    Who was Galileo? -- Boyhood -- Hungry for knowledge -- A rebel teacher -- Happy years -- Looking at the heavens -- The starry messenger -- A very dangerous thing? -- A masterpiece -- On trial -- Final years.
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    "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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    Ages 8-12.
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