Galileo: Watcher of the Skies by David WoottonCall Number: QB36/G2/W66/2010 (3rd floor)
ISBN: 9780300125368
Publication Date: 2010
Galileo is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to concede the importance of faith, and a brilliant analyst of the elegantly mathematical workings of nature yet bungling and insensitive with his own family.