Galileo s Telescope

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Galileo s Telescope

Author	: Massimo Bucciantini
File Size	: 51,9 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 07 May 2024
ISBN	: 9780674736917
Pages	: 361 pages

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Galileo s Telescope by Massimo Bucciantini Book PDF Summary

Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells how this ingenious device evolved into a precision instrument that would transcend the limits of human vision and transform humanity’s view of its place in the cosmos.

Galileo s Telescope by Massimo Bucciantini,Michele Camerota,Franco Giudice

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Galileo s Telescope by Massimo Bucciantini,Michele Camerota,Franco Giudice

An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world. Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells the story of

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Galileo and the Telescope by Yoming S. Lin

Shares biographical and historical information about Galileo Galilei, the man and his inventions, and includes fact sheets and a timeline.

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Digby and his sister Hannah stumble across Galileo's telescope in Mr. Rummage's flea market stall. This book relates the biography of astronomer Galileo in a charming fictional storyline. Wonderful illustrations help tell the story of Galileo's life and historic discoveries.

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The Invention of the Telescope by Albert Van Helden

Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to comprehend the strange and elusive universe around us was the telescope. Cornelis de Waard, in his "De uitvinding der verrekijkers" (The Hague, 1906), had uncovered

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Galileo has been referred to as the father of modern science. Even though he didn't invent the very first telescope, he did invent the first telescope that could see into space. This book features Galileo's process of altering the telescope, as well as the how STEM concepts helped him make

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"Sidereus Nuncius (usually Sidereal Messenger, also Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in New Latin by Galileo Galilei in March 1610. It was the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early observations

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Galileo s New Universe by Stephen P. Maran,Laurence A. Marschall

The historical and social implications of the telescope and that instrument's modern-day significance are brought into startling focus in this fascinating account. When Galileo looked to the sky with his perspicillum, or spyglass, roughly 400 years ago, he could not have fathomed the amount of change his astonishing findings—a seemingly

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