I, Galileo by Bonnie Christensen

I, Galileo by Bonnie Christensen

Galileo Galilei was an inventor, and an astronomer. His discoveries were so radical that, in his own time, they were considered heresies. How could anybody believe that the earth wasn't the center of the universe? After all, when you looked at the sky didn't the sun, the stars, and the moon move across it? Galileo, invented a compass and a telescope through which he was able to see the craters on the moon and Jupiter. He was also able to see that it was the planets that circled the sun. This was against what the Catholic Church believed at the time, and Galileo was ordered to stay silent about it, his books banned. For the next seven years Galileo ground new lenses that would make small things larger, but instead of studying the stars, he studied insects through his new invention, a microscope. He was a man before his time, a man who changed the way we look at things, and invented things we use today. This short and beautifully illustrated biography is a treat for the eyes and for the mind. Check it out!