Galileo

This must be my third or fourth book I've reviewed from the Christian Encounters series.  It really is one of my favourite series I've received from Thomas Nelson, and I hope the publishers continue to provide us with some more excellent biographies.

I think biographies generally get a bad rap for being rather boring, but the Christian Encounters series definitely gets it right.  I recently got to take a look at Galileo by Mitch Stokes.  Admittedly, I'm not a big science enthusiast, and I tend to get Galileo and Copernicus confused...but that's exactly why I should be reading books about science and scientists- to stretch my mind as much as possible.  Galileo's life was really more fascinating than I ever realised, and while I knew he faced difficulties with the church because of his theories (specifically, his stance on heliocentricity), I didn't understand the full extent of this controversy.  One of the coolest things I learned from this book: Galileo invented the pendulum clock!  I had no idea...but you can be sure the next time I visit the Smithsonian and watch the large pendulum clock swing back and forth, back and forth, back and forth...I'll be thinking of Galileo.

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