Galileo Galilei: A Biography and Inquiry into His Philosophy of Science (The Library of Great Lives)

xviii, 260 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of Galileo. Translated from the Italian with additional notes and an appendix by Stillman Drake, with a foreword by Professor Giorgio de Santillana, and a special foreword by Ray Bradbury. A biography of the famous astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician whose discoveries and theories paved the way for modern scientific inquiry.