For hundreds of years, most people thought the earth was the center of the universe, and the sun and the moon and all the other planets revolved around it.
An edition of Starry Messenger
(1996)
Starry Messenger
Galileo Galilei
by Peter Sís
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Describes the life and work of the courageous man 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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Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
September 1, 2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
in English
0374470278 9780374470272
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Starry messenger: a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei
1996, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
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