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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>January 2012 Book Club
Selection<br>
Galileo’s Leaning Tower Experiment<br>
By Wendy Macdonald<br>
Print/braille edition, $7.95<br>
In contracted braille <br>
Ages 7 and up<br>
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In this lively retelling of Galileo's leaning tower experiment,<br>
kids will learn that anyone can aspire to become a scientist - <br>
all it takes is curiosity, determination, and a little imagination.<br>
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Every day, Massimo takes his uncle's lunch to a bridge and -<br>
as his uncle's boat passes underneath - drops a loaf of <br>
bread and wheel of cheese just in time for them to land safely <br>
in the boat. Professor Galileo observes the boy's lunch-time <br>
ritual several times before realizing that the heavier <br>
cheese and the lighter bread both land at exactly the same <br>
time - disproving the old rules of how gravity works! <br>
Together, the two begin to investigate the science of <br>
motion, gravity and weight, eventually proving Aristotle <br>
wrong by dropping weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. <br>
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'Drop this on young scientists to give a glimpse of one <br>
of the most renowned experiments ever and a methodology <br>
for their future research too.’<br>
- Kirkus Reviews<br>
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