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Galileo
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, ... [... more]
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Thermometers are the obvious starting point. They come in a huge variety of models with prices starting at about $10 and soaring to the hundreds for more sophisticated versions. At $195, the Galileo Floating Ball ... [... more]
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Freeman Dyson
From Galileo to today's amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In... Read more > An illuminating collection ... [... more]
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Drake Stillman
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, ... [... more]
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Eric Flint
Eric Flint's acclaimed 1634: The Galileo Affair was a national bestseller from one of the most talked-about voices in his field. Now, in this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the ... [... more]
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Gentry Lee
Gentry Lee has been chief engineer on Project Galileo, director of science analysis and mission planning for NASA's Viking mission to Mars, and partner with Carl Sagan in the design, development, and implementation ... [... more]
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