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Title:Galileo: Decisive Innovator
Price:AUD$12.00 (about USD$7.90)
ISBN:0521566711
Item ID:LB00-235597
Quantity:1
Publisher:Cambridge University Press, Great Britain, 1994
Binding:Softcover
Condition:Good
Cambridge University Press, 1994, Softcover, Book Condition: Good

n this entertaining and authoritative biography Michael Sharratt examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness, and penetration of Galileo Galilei. To follow his career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of comprehending nature is to understand a crucial stage of the Scientific Revolution. Galileo was a path-breaker for the newly-invented telescope, the decoder of nature's mathematical language, and a quite brilliant populariser of science. Even his reluctant excursion into theology has at last been officially and handsomely recognised by the Church's 'rehabilitation' of the Inquisition's most famous victim, fully discussed in the last chapter. This book makes his lasting contributions accessible to non-scientists and his mistakes are not overlooked. This is not a mythical story, but the biography of an innovator - one of the greatest ever known. 247 pages. Item Type: Ex-Library. Covered in non removable plastic covering. Only a few library stamps/markings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0521566711. ISBN/EAN: 9780521566711. Inventory No: 235597.
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