Starry messenger
Subtitle: a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei
By: created and illustrated by Peter Sis for Frances Foster Books at Farrar Straus Giroux, New York.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Juvenile literature; Galileo, 1564-1642; Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Scientists -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Astronomers; Scientists
Description: 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.