Galileo - J.L. Heilbron
Category: History
Narrator: Victor Bevine
Tags: History
Galileo (UNABRIDGED) by J. L. Heilbron Narrated by Victor Bevine, PUBLISHER: Audible, Inc. LENGTH: 17 hrs and 43 mins AUDIBLE RELEASE DATE: 02-15-11, Publishers Summary In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a hurried little masterpiece in John Heilbrons words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - the craters of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter - Galileo dramatically challenged our idea of the perfection of the heavens and the centrality of the Earth in the universe. Indeed, the appearance of the little book is regarded as one of the great moments in the history of science., Planned to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Starry Messenger, this is a major new biography of Galileo, a fresh and much more rounded view of the great scientist than found in earlier works. Unlike previous biographers, Heilbron shows us that Galileo was far more than a mathematician: he was deeply
