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It is 400 years since Galileo published The Starry Messenger. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations – the craters of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter – using the recently invented telescope, he changedforever our idea of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth in the universe. The appearance of this little book is regarded as one of the great moments in the history of science.
To celebrate International Galileo Year this major new biography of Galileo offers a fresh and much more rounded view of the great scientist.
John Hilbron, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley and Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, is a distinguished historian of science.
“A masterpiece… It far surpasses all previous biographies of Galileo. Impeccable scholarship.” Nick Jardine, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Sciences, Cambridge University.
Meet the Author: To see and hear John Heilbron talking about Galileo, click here
