Galileo Decisive Innovator |
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| Author:
| Sharratt, Michael |
| Contribution by:
| Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
Knight, David |
| Preface by:
| Knight, David |
| Series title: | Cambridge Science Biographies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-56671-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $45.95 |
Book Description:
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This entertaining biography examines the imagination and penetration of Galileo, path-breaker for the telescope, decoder of nature's mathematics, populariser of science, and the Inquisition's most famous victim. Accessible to non-scientists, this is the biography of one of the greatest innovators ever known.
This entertaining biography examines the imagination and penetration of Galileo, path-breaker for the telescope, decoder of nature's mathematics, populariser of science, and the Inquisition's most famous victim. Accessible to non-scientists, this is the biography of one of the greatest innovators ever known.