Mitton, Jacqueline.

Galileo : scientist and stargazer / Jacqueline Mitton ; illustrated by Gerry Ball. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. - xxiii, 31 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. - What's their story? .

Includes index.

Describes the life and work of the scientist who offered objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

ISBN: 0195214056

LCCN: 97027396

Subjects--Personal Names:
Galileo, 1564-1642.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Astronomers--Biography.--Italy
Physicists--Biography.--Italy
Scientists.

LC Class. No.: QB36.G2 / M57 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 520/.92 B