Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about the Starry Messenger and Systems of the World by Stillman Drake

Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about the Starry Messenger and Systems of the World

Stillman Drake

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nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the day. The discovery of the Medicean stars (the satellites o...

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