by Marlowe Hood
23 Oct 2009
PARIS (AFP) – Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of the Universe and our place in it.
Suggested reading:
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, Dava Sobel
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought, Thomas Kuhn
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