Follett Content Book Detail: Starry Messenger : a Book Depicting the Life of A Famous Scientist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Physicist, Galileo Galilei by Sis, Peter

Starry Messenger : a Book Depicting the Life of A Famous Scientist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher, Physicist, Galileo Galilei

Author: Sis, Peter

Follett Number: 23823XX
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1996, p2000
Format: 33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Dewey: 520
Classifications: Biography; Nonfiction

Subjects:
Galileo, 1564-1642
Scientists
"A Sunburst book." Describes the life and work of Galileo who changed the way people saw the galaxy by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

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