Título:
Galileo : Renaissance scientist and astronomer
PERSONAL_AUTHOR_EPSB:
Resumen:
Examines the life and achievements of Renaissance scientist and astronomer Galileo, discussing his youth, family, and education, his innovation in testing his ideas with experiments, his teaching career, and his controversial claim that Earth was not the center of the solar system which brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church.
Fecha de publicación como intervalo:
2006
SERIES_EPSB:
Descripción física:
166 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Contenido:
Early directions -- Born of the Renaissance -- A searching mind -- A new direction -- New posts, new obligations -- An eye to the heavens -- Man of the stars -- A controversy of ideas -- The trial -- The pendulum swings.
Información del programa:
Social Studies - Grade 8
Materia personal:
ISBN:
9780791086285
Información de publicación:
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
