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History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Galileo Galilei
Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
Narrateur(s): Tracey Norman
Durée: 27 min

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History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Galileo Galilei

Auteur(s): Charles River Editors

Narrateur(s): Tracey Norman

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*Perfect for ages 7-9*Includes pictures of Galileo and important people, places, and events in his life. “What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust...” – GalileoIn Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. Pictures help bring the story to life, and the concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. It would be impossible to overstate the accomplishments and legacy of a man history has dubbed the “Father of Modern Science”. In his lifetime, Galileo straddled the epochs of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, and it was his work and technological advances that helped usher in a brand new understanding of the solar system and the scientific method. Stephen Hawking himself has asserted, “Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."Of course, part of what made Galileo such a monumental figure was the fact that he was ahead of his time, but he doggedly refused to conform to the accepted dogmas of contemporary society. As he once put it, “Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.”Galileo has been one of history’s most famous and influential scientists ever since his life and death over 350 years ago, but it’s somewhat ironic that he might be best known for being subjected to the Inquisition and for mak