Macdonald, Wendy

Galileo's leaning tower experiment : a science adventure / Wendy Macdonald ; illustrated by Paolo Rui. - Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2009. - 32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

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?

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 9781570918698 (reinforced) 1570918694 (reinforced) 9781570918704 (softcover) 1570918708 (softcover)

LCCN: 2008010652

Subjects--Personal Names:
Galileo, 1564-1642 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mathematical physics--Fiction.
Gravity--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.M3328 / Gal 2009

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]