LibGuides: Medieval Europe: Galileo

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The Italian Renaissance
ISBN: 0863079989
Publication Date: 1990-05-01
Color Overheads Included! Italian Renaissance contains 12 full-color transparencies, 12 reproducible pages, and a richly detailed teacher's guide. Among the topics covered in this volume are Renaissance warfare, Florence, the Medici family, Italian humanists, Renaissance popes, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, leisure, medicine, and Renaissance fashion.
Galileo by Philip Steele
ISBN: 0792236564
Publication Date: 2005-11-08
Galileo made the first effective use of the refracting telescope to discover important new facts about astronomy. His observations led him to support Copernicus's claim that Earth and the other planets circled the sun. This conflicted with the teachings of the Catholic Church, and brought Galileo before the judges of the Inquisition. He spent his final years under house arrest. Galileo's genius lay in the way he approached scientific problems. He reduced problems to simple terms on the basis of experience and common-sense logic. Then he analyzed and resolved the problems according to simple mathematical descriptions, thus opening the way for the development of modern mathematical physics. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

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Galileo: The world's first celebrity scientist, Galileo Galilei, spent most of his life trying to disprove the work of Aristotle. Long synopsis: The world's first celebrity scientist, Galileo Galilei, spent most of his life trying to disprove the work of Aristotle. From the beautiful city of Venice, Dr Allan Chapman explains how Galileo made science experimental, moving away from the observational ideas of Aristotle. The Italian scientist invented tools and instruments to test his theories, becoming a well-known celebrity with the invention of the telescope.

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Who was Galileo? here it is in a nutshell: Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher, and one of the pioneers of the scientific method.

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