Patricia Brennan Demuth

He's known as "the Father of Modern Science," so of course Who Was Galileo? deserves a place in the Who Was...? series! Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name—a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He...