Galileo : Renaissance Scientist and Astronomer ISBN: 9781438104171 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Infobase Learning Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Science; Science: Astronomy;
Galileo was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He is also noted for being the first to study the skies with a refracting telescope. In one year - 1610 - he made major discoveries relating to the moon, Milky Way, Jupiter's four large moons, sunspots, and the phases of Venus.