Fritz Weaver
Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth ... [... more]
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, ...
From Amazon.com: Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. [... more]
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
 Amazon.ca: Though he was once proclaimed "the oracle of the electronic age," perhaps the world was not quite ready for Marshall McLuhan when he came to prominence in the 1960s. With the advent of digital technology, the Internet, and the global [... more]
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Whose Bright Idea Was That?: Great Firsts of World History
Who REALLY invented or discovered that?: This book can really make you think again when you feel you really know who invented what and who explored what first. This book goes through dozens of subject areas throughout history and tells the truth about [... more]
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Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions from the ...
Highly entertaining but scattered: This book ranges across lots of seeming unrelated inventions and discoveries and ties them together into brief glimpse into the middle ages. The research seems to have focused primarily on italian inventions. The [... more]
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Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and ...
america sucks!: What Barone is basically saying is that living in the early twenty-first America, that he proclaims to love, actually sucks! In his Hard America that he praises,one is nothing more than a gulag inmate with a suit who is supposed to work [... more]
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Galileo's Daughter
From Amazon.com: Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Galileos Daughter
From Amazon.com: Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. [... more]
CDN$23.00
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Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the ...
Author: Rodney Carlisle Author: Scientific American Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 609 EAN: 9780471244103 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0471244104 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: 2004-07-19 [... more]
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1000 Inventions And Discoveries
What about 'Discoveries and Inventions' from India: Many nice pictures but the title of this book may have reflected its contents better if it had been '1000 Inventions and Discoveries from mainly Europe, China, Egypt and the Middle East'. Although it [... more]
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1000 Inventions And Discoveries Paperback
What about 'Discoveries and Inventions' from India: Many nice pictures but the title of this book may have reflected its contents better if it had been '1000 Inventions and Discoveries from mainly Europe, China, Egypt and the Middle East'. Although it [... more]
CDN$19.99
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