books.google.com.au - In this entertaining and authoritative biography, first published in 1994, Michael Sharratt examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness and penetrating intelligence of Galileo Galilei. To follow Galileo's career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Galileo.html?id=rB0rHzrpJOMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGalileo