Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei / created and illustrated by Peter Sis for Frances Foster Books at Farrar Straus Giroux, New York.
1996
CMC QB36.G2 S57 1996 (Mapit)
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Title
Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei / created and illustrated by Peter Sis for Frances Foster Books at Farrar Straus Giroux, New York.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0374371911
Publication Details
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996.
Language
English
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Call Number
CMC QB36.G2 S57 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
520/.92 B
Summary
Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
Awards
Caldecott Honor, 1997.
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