Galileo was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He is also noted for being the first to study the skies with a refracting telescope. In one year - 1610 - he made major discoveries relating to the moon, Milky Way, Jupiter's four large moons, sunspots, and the phases of Venus.
| ISBN: | 9780791086285 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2005 |
| Author: | Tim McNeese |
| Publisher: | Chelsea House Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 166 pages |
| Series: | Makers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance |