[Capchapohio] FW: NBP-Announce: Inspire budding scientists with 'Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment!'

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Subject: NBP-Announce: Inspire budding scientists with 'Galileo's Leaning
Tower Experiment!'

 

January 2012 Book Club Selection

Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment

By Wendy Macdonald

Print/braille edition, $7.95

In contracted braille 

Ages 7 and up

 

In this lively retelling of Galileo's leaning tower experiment,

kids will learn that anyone can aspire to become a scientist - 

all it takes is curiosity, determination, and a little imagination.

 

Every day, Massimo takes his uncle's lunch to a bridge and -

as his uncle's boat passes underneath - drops a loaf of 

bread and wheel of cheese just in time for them to land safely 

in the boat. Professor Galileo observes the boy's lunch-time 

ritual several times before realizing that the heavier 

cheese and the lighter bread both land at exactly the same 

time - disproving the old rules of how gravity works! 

Together, the two begin to investigate the science of 

motion, gravity and weight, eventually proving Aristotle 

wrong by dropping weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 

 

'Drop this on young scientists to give a glimpse of one 

of the most renowned experiments ever and a methodology 

for their future research too.'

- Kirkus Reviews

 

To order or read more about this book online, visit 

http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/BC1201-GALILEO.html

 

 

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