Starry Messenger: A book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist Galileo Galilei

Starry Messenger: A book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist Galileo Galilei, by Peter Sis, New York: Frances Foster Books, 1996 (ISBN 9780374371913)

Annotation:

This book tells the story of Galileo and how he managed to discover that the earth was not the center of the universe.  Peter Sis describes, through pictures and words, the process Galileo went through to document his observations in the night sky.

Personal Reaction:

The pictures in this book are very reflective of the Galileo’s time period and do a great job setting the mood of the story.  One thing I like about this book is that there are two levels to the story.  One level is the very simply worded summary of Galileo’s life, and the other level is snippets of actual text from Galileo’s journals.  This allows older readers to get a feel for Galileo’s work without actually having to sit down and interpret the original journals.

Curricular connections7th grade Social Studies

Group Project annotation Lori Murray