Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement.
Patricia Brennan Demuth offers a sympathetic portrait of a brilliant man who lived in a time when speaking scientific truth to those in power was still a dangerous proposition..
From there, not even the sky was the limit He turned long-held notions about the universe topsy turvy with his support of a sun-centric solar system.
He invented a telescope to observe the heavens.
Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era\'s great rebirth of knowledge.
Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement
