Galileo’s Telescope

Galileo’s Telescope
Author: Massimo Bucciantini
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674736915


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Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells how this ingenious device evolved into a precision instrument that would transcend the limits of human vision and transform humanity’s view of its place in the cosmos.


Galileo’s Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Massimo Bucciantini
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-23 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Tele
Galileo's Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Massimo Bucciantini
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-23 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world. Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky c
Galileo's Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 44
Authors: Gerry Bailey
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12 - Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

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Digby and his sister Hannah stumble across Galileo's telescope in Mr. Rummage's flea market stall. This book relates the biography of astronomer Galileo in a ch
Galileo and the Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 26
Authors: Yoming S. Lin
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-15 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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Shares biographical and historical information about Galileo Galilei, the man and his inventions, and includes fact sheets and a timeline.
Galileo’s Glassworks
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Eileen Reeves
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind--so much so that it seems this simple glass ins