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An absorbing account of the origins of modern science as well as the warmly human story of a man and his pioneering work, this biography chronicles Galileo's innovations and inventions in fascinating detail. It also recounts his clashes with dogmatists and offers a retrospective of his remarkable legacy.Fermi, Laura is the author of 'Galileo and the Scientific Revolution', published 2003 under ISBN 9780486432267 and ISBN 0486432262.
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