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Author Macdonald, Wendy (Wendy Margaret)

Title Galileo's leaning tower experiment : a science adventure / Wendy Macdonald ; illustrated by Paolo Rui.

Imprint Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Meadowlark Fiction  F MAC    ---  Available
Description 32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Audience 2-4.
Summary In Italy, 1589, Massimo drops lunch to his uncle from a bridge, so the food falls into his uncle's boat. One day, Galileo notices that the bread and wheel of cheese land in the boat at the same time. But Aristotle had said that heavy things fall at a faster rate than light ones. Will Galileo and Massimo be able to prove Aristotle's theory wrong?
Subject Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Fiction.
Mathematical physics -- Fiction.
Gravity -- Fiction.
Added Author Rui, Paolo, illustrator.
ISBN 9781570918698 (reinforced) : $16.95

 
    
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