Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140) and index.
Contents:
Learning to question -- On motion -- Starry messenger -- Phases of Venus -- Bodies in water -- Sunspots -- Defeat in Rome -- Assayer -- Two world systems and a trial -- Two new sciences.
Summary:
Presents the life and work of the famous sixteenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist.
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