Book - Galileo Galilei: First Physicist, by James MacLachlan

Paperback, 126 pages, published 1999. Appropriate for grades 6 and up. Illustrated with photos, graphics, technical schemes, and sidebars that offer important details of Galileo's contributions to humanity. This copy is in excellent used condition. Minor cosmetic signs of use around the edges, but the binding is tight and all pages are intact. No writing, no highlights, no rips. "Galileo's scientific innovations are pivotal to our understanding of the laws of the nature, and this book shares a captivating portrait of one of history's great scientific minds. After a brief intro to physics, readers are given a clear, concise account of Galileo's life and the Renaissance world in which he lived. We follow Galileo's beginnings as a pre-med and philosophy student, and his fight to study math through a long lifetime that included hardships, favor, success, disfavor--and, ultimately, censure from the Church via the Inquisition. The author traces the great scientist's education, describes his maverick experiments in Padua and Pisa, and recreates the ingenious pathway of Galileo's famous discoveries. This volume clearly explains his theories about the motions of falling bodies, his study of pendulums, and his major discoveries in astronomy made with a self-built telescope. Despite censorship and imprisonment for his radical ideas that clashed with fundamental Church doctrines, Galileo persisted in his pursuit of scientific truths to bestow upon future generations." 🔭🪐✨