Galileo: Renaissance Scientist And Astronomer
Tim McNeese
Library Binding
(Chelsea House Pub (Library), Sept. 1, 2005)
A mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, Italian-born Galileo was the first to study the skies with a refracting telescope. In 1610, he made major discoveries relating to the moon, the Milky Way, Jupiter's four large moons, sunspots, and the phases of Venus.
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